The “Why” of the Christian Scholar’s Review
Almost every company in America can point to a corporate plan that highlights its unique strengths, market segments, growth opportunities, and headwinds. Many Christian not-for-profits, and especially Christian higher education institutions, can also point to their own strategic plans that focus on their mission, key areas for growth, and the steps they will take to…
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“Mining the Riches” ft. the Octet Collaborative’s Mia Chung I Saturdays at Seven – Season Three, Episode Twenty-Nine
In the twenty-ninth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Mia Chung, Executive Director of the Octet Collaborative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chung begins by exploring the relationship shared by genius and effort. As a concert-level pianist, Chung began playing the piano at the…
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Do Near-Death Experiences Offer Clues to the Scope of Salvation?
They claim to be eyewitnesses to eternity, spectators to the supernatural. “I’ve seen Heaven” is their audacious claim. “I met God there.” “I’m no longer afraid to die because I know there’s life after death, and it’s more real than real life!” One even described the experience like this: “If you took the one-thousand best…
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When the Book about When Prophecy Fails Fails: The Lies Promoted by the Originator of Cognitive Dissonance Theory
In graduate school, one of my professors required our class to read a "classic" social psychology text, When Prophecy Fails. The book is based on the account of Dorothy Martin, who in 1954 predicted a world-ending flood that would result in her group’s rescue by flying saucers. But that’s not the interesting part. The interesting…
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Cosmic Cannibalism: Fathers and Sons
From Ivan the Terrible, to Suleiman the Magnificent, to Logan Roy on HBO’s “Succession,” are powerful fathers doomed to crush their children? And are “paternal” leaders (like “Papa Joe,” Joseph Stalin) all too likely to sacrifice and exploit the people they’re supposed to protect? In my Art History classes, one image that reliably provokes discussion…
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“God’s Goodness, God’s Grace, and by God’s Design” ft. Trinity Western University’s Todd Martin I Saturdays at Seven – Season Three, Episode Twenty-Eight
In the twenty-eighth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Todd Martin, the President of Trinity Western University. Martin opens by reflecting upon his expertise as a family studies scholar, exploring the ways that channeling theory and family development theory can prove beneficial to educators striving…
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Established in 1970, Christian Scholar’s Review is a medium for communication among Christians who have been called to an academic vocation. Its primary objective is the publication of peer-reviewed scholarship and research, within and across the disciplines, that advances the integration of faith and learning and contributes to a broader and more unified understanding of the nature of creation, culture, and vocation and the responsibilities of those whom God has created. It also provides a forum for discussion of pedagogical and theoretical issues related to Christian higher education. It invites contributions from Christian scholars of all historic traditions, and from others sympathetic to the task of religiously-informed scholarship, that advance the work of Christian academic communities and enhance mutual understanding with other religious and academic communities.