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

August 18, 2025
n 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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Explore the Christian Scholar’s Review Summer 2025 Book Reviews

As a companion to yesterday’s blog introducing our summer articles, today we turn to our book review section, curated by our book review editor, Matt Lundberg—Calvin University’s director of the de Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development and professor of Religion. While we publish many excellent standalone reviews, the second part of each journal offers…

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“The Affirmation of Others” ft. Calvin University’s Greg Elzina I Saturdays at Seven – Season Two, Episode Forty-Eight

In the forty-eighth episode of the second season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Greg Elzinga, President of Calvin University. Elzinga begins by sharing his views on arguments that philanthropy as presently exercised in the West finds its origins in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Those origins then find their expression in…
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August 18, 2025

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

n 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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August 21, 2025

Explore the Christian Scholar’s Review Summer 2025 Book Reviews

As a companion to yesterday’s blog introducing our summer articles, today we turn to our book review section, curated by our book review editor, Matt Lundberg—Calvin University’s director of the de Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development and professor of Religion. While we publish many excellent standalone reviews, the second part of each journal offers…
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August 20, 2025

Explore the Christian Scholar’s Review Summer 2025 Articles

This summer, we reached a milestone of over 550 manuscripts submitted to Christian Scholar’s Review since we introduced our online manuscript management system five years ago. It seems incredible (and a lifetime ago) that we were tracking manuscripts, reviewers, reviews, revisions, decisions, and correspondence with a very wonky spreadsheet. I offer that number with some…
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August 18, 2025

Time for Self-Sacrificial Leadership in the Christian University World

Many universities in America are experiencing difficult times. The combination of enrollment declines and operating cost increases has pushed some universities beyond their ability to adapt. A growing number of institutions suffering financial exigency have either closed or been merged into more economically healthy university systems.Evan Castillo and Lyss Welding. 2025. “Tracking College Closures and…
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August 14, 2025

Mother Wounds

When I was a young professor, before I had children of my own, I found myself getting too emotionally entangled with my students. I don’t think I violated students’ boundaries or did anything intrusive. I was too constitutionally timid for that. But I DID take my students’ problems home with me at night, identifying with…
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August 13, 2025

This Virtue Does Not Make Secular Lists of Virtues: But It Should Be Central for Christian Universities

If you check the lists of pagan or general virtues in the past or present, you will not find this virtue listed (with one exception). If you check the list of virtues found in American laws that list virtues that K-12 schools are supposed to teach students, you will also not see this virtue. You…
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August 12, 2025

Your Work Matters. And it Doesn’t. Be Glad.

I sit in an empty computer lab, surrounded by the sleek machinery of digital existence, propped in the curvature of an adjustable office chair. I have been here all day, all week, working hard, even harder than usual, spurred on by participation in a writing cooperative. There are others in neighboring rooms, secreting words onto…

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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.

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