“Laziness Does Not Please the Almighty” ft. Westmont College’s Sandra L. Richter I Saturdays at Seven – Season Three, Episode Thirty-One
In the thirty-first episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Sandra L. Richter, the Robert H. Gundry Chair of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. Richter begins by sharing how the details through which Old Testament (and New Testament) scholars are called to sort can be of…
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Building a Theistic Bridge Between Atomic Theory and a Christ-Animating Theology
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details. –Albert Einstein1 The turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century was a heady time for advances in atomic…
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Beyond Civility: The Call to Intellectual Hospitality
The conversation began, as it often does, with conviction. In my undergraduate criminal justice classroom, we were discussing the death penalty. One student spoke with certainty about justice as retribution—grounded, she explained, in her understanding of Scripture. Across the room, another student responded just as firmly, articulating a vision of justice rooted in restoration, also…
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Book Review of Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies about Calling
Finding one’s calling is a rich, complex journey. Honesty “about the ups and downs of calling will open up conversation” that fosters contemplating more meaningful and purposeful lives (16). That is one of the primary aims of Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore’s recent book. Utilizing faith, philosophy, and pragmatism, she pushes back on the pop culture notion of…
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Chasing AI: Wisdom and Responsibility for Christian Educators
As an educational psychologist, I study teachers and students, both of whom are learners in their own ways. As artificial intelligence (AI) burgeons in classrooms, I cannot help but think of Romans as a possible answer to the question Benjamin Bloom posed more than four decades ago. Roughly, Bloom’s question was: “How can we deliver…
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The “What” of Christian Scholar’s Review
Last week, Margaret Diddams discussed the important mission that guides Christian Scholar’s Review (CSR)—the “why.” As someone who studies Christian higher education, I also find that faithful institutions have theologically rich and informed mission statements. Unfortunately, many Christian institutions with great mission statements do not consistently demonstrate the operationalization of that mission in all they…
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