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A Review of David I. Smith, Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom

August 18, 2025
David I. Smith’s most recent book, Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith in the Classroom, represents yet another of his significant and vital contributions to Christian education. Commencing with an invitation to wisdom for teachers and their students, Smith offers philosophical insights along with practical strategies for authentically integrating faith into teaching practices.…

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An Open Letter to Non-Believers in Academia

Dear Non-Believing Colleagues: My open letter is divided into two parts. The first one opens with a parable of sorts. An atheist professor once approached a colleague with a sensitive question. The latter was a religiously devout academic from a distant foreign country who appeared to hold traditional views. “In your view,” she asked, “is…

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“Clean, Safe, and Abundant” ft. Abilene Christian University’s Rusty Towell I Saturdays at Seven – Season Three, Episode Ten

In the tenth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Rusty Towell, Professor of Physics and Director of NEXT Lab at Abilene Christian University. Towell opens by discussing the challenges nuclear energy experienced over the course of the last 80 years. Some of those challenges are…
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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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An Open Letter to Non-Believers in Academia

Dear Non-Believing Colleagues: My open letter is divided into two parts. The first one opens with a parable of sorts. An atheist professor once approached a colleague with a sensitive question. The latter was a religiously devout academic from a distant foreign country who appeared to hold traditional views. “In your view,” she asked, “is…
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Christians Reading Classics: An Excerpt

The following excerpt from Nadya Williams, Christians Reading Classics, is published with permission from Zondervan Academic. *** Sometime in the mid-fourth century BC, a young man, Ariston, was walking home one evening from the shrine of Persephone in Athens. Suddenly, a middle-aged man named Konon along with his son and a couple of other associates…
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When Christ Moves in the Classroom: Experiencing God in Every Student’s Story

In my class on disabilities, I recently experienced one of those sacred moments when I could see how Christ animates learning—not through curriculum or lesson structure, but through the hearts of students. From the very first day, I sensed something different about this group. Their responses, their willingness to listen, and their genuine care for…
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November 7, 2025

The Right and Wrong Kind of Intellectual Humility: Why Science Emerged in the West

One intriguing question that has puzzled scholars in the study of history has been: why did science as we know it today develop in the West and not the East? After all, one could argue that Asian cultures had empirical interests and cultural humility that could have fostered a similar sort of study. In the…
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November 6, 2025

Introduction to a Flourishing Life:
Responding to the Needs of Gen Z

Over the past twenty years, the needs of university students have changed significantly. As Jonathan Haidt adeptly chronicles in his Anxious Generation, mental health and loneliness, depression, and anxiety are rampant among today’s youth. COVID only exacerbated this. Recognizing these challenges, two Whitworth professors from disparate disciplines set out to craft a course to address…
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Why Institutions Still Matter

It’s common to observe that digital technology has undermined the assumption that institutions are trustworthy. Some people lament it, and others celebrate it, but everybody sees it. Thanks to the Internet, institutions have lost much of their authority to shape common knowledge. This certainly includes institutions of higher education, Christian and otherwise. It’s less common…

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