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Returning to Religion in Shakespeare Studies – A Review Essay

August 18, 2025
It has been approximately twenty-five years since the “turn to religion” in Shakespeare studies. When I informally polled a few colleagues in history, psychology, and social work about a turn to religion in their fields of study, each identified a pivotal publication in the late 1990s or early 2000s in the scholarly literature. One is…

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Making Sense of Christ Confounded

In my last contribution to CSR, I tried to articulate, as briefly as possible, the “phenomenology of grace.”Mitchell, A. C. (2025, July 22). Revelation and Remembrance: Prayer and the Phenomenology of Grace. Christian Scholar’s Review, Christ Animated Learning Blog. How do persons sense, discern, and abide the world as it’s presented to them? How do…

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“Anything Can Happen in Government” ft. Houghton University’s Wayne D. Lewis, Jr. I Saturdays at Seven – Season Three, Episode Five

In the fifth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Wayne D. Lewis, Jr., President of Houghton University. Lewis begins by discussing the levels of attention presidents in the United States need to exert in relation to decisions being made in Washington, DC as well in…
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August 18, 2025

Read Aloud!—For Edification: Pedagogical Reflections Inspired by Kierkegaard

In a passage sure to strike many moderns as charmingly quaint, Augustine confesses genuine puzzlement upon observing one of Saint Ambrose’s reading habits: “When he read, his eyes travelled across the page and his heart sought into the sense, but voice and tongue were silent.Augustine, Confessions, ed. Michael P. Foley, trans. F. J. Sheed (Hacket,…
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August 18, 2025

Election to Community untoMaximizing Shalom as the Heart of Vocation: Wolfhart Pannenberg and Stanley J. Grenz in Dialogue with John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

The word vocation today often refers to one’s work or employment in the world. This secularized, individualistic connotation is discernible from definitions like “a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation” or the use of the word calling to describe such a “feeling.”Lexico, s.v. “vocation,” accessed 29 November 2020, https://www.lexico.com/definition/vocation. Nevertheless, in…
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August 18, 2025

Why Seek Profits?: A Missional Perspective on Business

For-profit businesses dominate the modern economy. But is there any good reason for the Christian to willingly participate in them? Upon first glance, this seems like a silly question. Despite the way it is often practiced, for-profit business enterprises can be a powerful force for good and can have a variety of positive consequences, both…
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May 19, 2025

Mending the Christian Imagination: Place, Race, and Calling in Christian Higher Education

By the middle of spring semester, talk with graduating seniors in my department often include the question: what will you be doing next year? That question reflects the fact that a career is an important aspect of vocation. American Christians often pray about questions of calling such as what work they will do, or who…
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May 19, 2025

All Quiet with Darwin: Animal Suffering and Divine Benevolence in Historical Perspective

For many centuries, the belief in God as the Creator and Sustainer of the universe was undisputed in the Western world.For this article, I will use the following definitions: Christians are those who believe that there is someone who created the universe and has been maintaining it ever since; atheists are those who do not…
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May 19, 2025

Making Sense of Christian Learning

Introduction Christian higher education finds itself at a significant crossroads. Cultural upheaval, significant shifts in college enrollment, concerns around the enduring value of a college degree, the impact of artificial intelligence, and many other factors swirl about amidst ongoing financial pressures.Michael Smith, “The Public is Giving Up on Higher Ed,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October…

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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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Making Sense of Christ Confounded

In my last contribution to CSR, I tried to articulate, as briefly as possible, the “phenomenology of grace.”Mitchell, A. C. (2025, July 22). Revelation and Remembrance: Prayer and the Phenomenology of Grace. Christian Scholar’s Review, Christ Animated Learning Blog. How do persons sense, discern, and abide the world as it’s presented to them? How do…
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October 6, 2025

Learning in AI Time: Institutional Virtues in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

In his 1939 sermon Learning in Wartime, CS Lewis considered whether education should continue amid high-stakes global conflict. Is learning something that should be suspended during a war, saved only for times of peace and predictability? Or does the acquisition of knowledge, learning, thinking, and prudential judgment become more important during moments of upheaval? Predictably…
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October 2, 2025

A Review of David T. Koyzis, Citizenship Without Illusions: A Christian Guide to Political Engagement

For two thousand years Christians have wrestled with what it means to follow Jesus’s command to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God. In Romans 13 Paul tells us we should obey and honor the authorities, and his Roman citizenship twice plays a pivotal role in the drama…
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September 30, 2025

Imaging God’s Love for the World: Cosmos Love and the Gospel of John

It was a quiet morning in my basement carrel in the Calvin College library. I was reading the Gospel of John— the only book of the Bible past Genesis that begins with the words, “In the beginning...”. My family had recently left our beloved Town of Dunn in Wisconsin for my childhood home of Grand…
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September 26, 2025

Is Holiness a Virtue?

One of the primary things we learn about God in the Bible is that he is holy (Lev. 11:44-45; 19:2; any reference to the Holy Spirit). Moreover, we learn that as image bearers of God, we are to exhibit God’s character by being holy as well (Lev. 11:45; I Peter 1:15-16). Yet, holiness is a…
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September 25, 2025

A Review of Judith Wolfe, The Theological Imagination: Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith.

We typically relegate the imagination to the realm of make believe. By creating fantastical worlds and playing pretend, the imagination in this view seems like an escape from reality. But as Judith Wolfe’s The Theological Imagination explains, the imagination is not an escape from reality, but what shapes our reality. Following in the philosophical tradition…

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