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Theologically Navigating Cinematic Multiverses with C. S. Lewis

March 11, 2025
The term “multiverse” has gained popularity in the last decade as a storytelling trope exploring alternate timelines based on different choices characters do, or could, make. Yet, while the term may have found popularity in recent years, particularly due to the popularity of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this existential thought process is…

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The Joys and Perils of Silence: Lessons from Counseling

In my Counseling Theory & Practice class for undergraduate psychology students, the first skills practice session focuses on the reflection of feelings. As such, many of the guidelines for this session spotlight what to say and how to say it. For example, I provide students with a list of “feeling” words to add to their…

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“One Foot in the Academy and One Foot in the Church” ft. Campbell University’s J. Bradley Creed I Saturdays at Seven – Season Two, Episode Thirty-Three

In the thirty-third episode of the second season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with J. Bradley Creed, President of Campbell University. Creed opens by discussing how events in 1979 within the Southern Baptist Convention set in motion a host of changes that would begin by impacting the six Southern Baptist…
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March 11, 2025

Theologically Navigating Cinematic Multiverses with C. S. Lewis

The term “multiverse” has gained popularity in the last decade as a storytelling trope exploring alternate timelines based on different choices characters do, or could, make. Yet, while the term may have found popularity in recent years, particularly due to the popularity of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this existential thought process is…
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March 11, 2025

Disability as a Fundamental Anthropological Situation: Shi Tiesheng’s Christian-­Philosophical Reflection

Motivation and Introduction “When we see this man, first of all, the basis of what we know of him is his wheelchair.” This is how he was described by Pipi 皮皮,Pipi 皮皮, “Canque 残缺 ,” in Wozhiwu 我之舞 , ed. Shi Tiesheng 史铁生 (Cheng Chung Book Company, 2004), 254. Pipi 皮皮, formerly known as Feng…
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March 11, 2025

Toward a More Responsible Spirituality of Culture: Where Is God at Work?

One of the unnoticed losses resulting from the increasing polarization of American culture over the last decade is thoughtful—that is reasoned and biblical—conversation about God’s presence in what is going on. In fact, I want to argue in this article that, in the heat of battles over this or that ethical issue, this Presence has…
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March 11, 2025

Faithful Writing Pedagogy in the Age of Generative AI: A Sabbath-­Grounded Approach

Before the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022, discussions of AI in higher education were still relatively easy to avoid. While many people had begun to anticipate the impact of emerging AI technologies—some extolling the efficiencies promised by progressively sophisticated algorithms and others speculating apocalyptically about a world where these technologies gradually achieve…
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November 6, 2024

Telling New Stories

Last year a group of provosts convened to engage in conversations about Emerson’s essay, “The American Scholar.” Over the period of a year, we looked for insights into the role of the Christian scholar by reflecting on Emerson’s description of the ideal American scholar. He admonished the American scholar to break free from the European…
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November 6, 2024

The Christian Scholar as a Poet

A Tale of Two Emersons In the little New England town where I grew up, two roads were named after Ralph Waldo Emerson—different roads sharing one name. Our split-­level home sat on a half-­acre plot by a meadow; while I lived on this quiet Emerson Road, there was another Emerson Road less than a mile…

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The CSR blog is published daily with contributions from over 30 experienced scholars and practitioners discuss how Christ animates learning across a broad range of fields. The CSR blog provides a forum that both creates and curates interdisciplinary conversations about faith and learning in a way that draws and informs leading Christian scholars and practitioners from around the world.

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May 7, 2025

The Joys and Perils of Silence: Lessons from Counseling

In my Counseling Theory & Practice class for undergraduate psychology students, the first skills practice session focuses on the reflection of feelings. As such, many of the guidelines for this session spotlight what to say and how to say it. For example, I provide students with a list of “feeling” words to add to their…
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May 6, 2025

Adjunct Faculty Well-Being: When It Happens, and When It Doesn’t

It comes as no surprise to anyone working at an institution of higher education today that the hiring of adjunct faculty by U.S. colleges and universities has been on an upward trend. Since the 1970s, continuing economic pressures (including sharp increases in the cost of higher education and the impact of the 2020 COVID pandemic,…
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May 5, 2025

Are We Educating Intellectual Wrestlers? Not with Chat GPT  

Religious institutions of higher education often distinguish themselves from their secular counterparts in terms of something called “purpose.” Sometimes the idea is that the two kinds have different purposes; sometimes it’s that one is purposeful in a way that the other is not (as in the argument that “secular” means trying to be “neutral” between…
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May 2, 2025

The Danger of Alien “Life” Here: My Conversation with a “Silicon-based Alien Lifeform”

The Bible is silent about the existence of life on other worlds. With the exception of the angelic host—both good and evil—nowhere in Scripture is it explicitly stated that there are other races of beings anywhere in the universe that might give rise to UFOs. Genesis simply states God created celestial objects, "to divide the…
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April 30, 2025

Seeing, and Understanding

“They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, ‘Do you see anything?’ He looked up and…
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April 29, 2025

Rediscovering Meaning

Outside the friendly confines of the CSR blogosphere, society is fragmenting (or perhaps you could say it is fragmented). Truth itself seems increasingly privatized and tribal, adrift in a sea of relativism, subjective interpretations, and bold-faced lies. Political debates have intensified into existential wars, revealing a culture that feels not merely divided, but antagonistic, hateful,…

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