What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. Simon Critchley (chair of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, and part-time professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands) kicks off The Stone, a NY Times forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Inter-Varsity Records Edition
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Week in Review: What’s your story? How do you tell it?
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. Inhabiting God's story? Over the past several days Tom hosted Bobby Gross, National Director of InterVarsity's Graduate & Faculty Ministry. They had a number of conversations with faculty, pastors, and friends of InterVarsity Christian … [Read more...] about Week in Review: What’s your story? How do you tell it?
Week in Review: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. In the last Week in Review we kicked off with highlighting Seth Godin's take on the coming melt-down in higher education. Since then, the Chronicle of Higher Education thought Godin's piece was worth posting. That action, along with the … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Edition
Week in Review: Commonplace Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. The Collapse of Higher Education: Seth Godin on the coming melt-down in higher education: For 400 years, higher education in the US has been on a roll. From Harvard asking Galileo to be a guest professor in the 1600s to millions tuning in to … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Commonplace Edition
Week in Review: Jesus, Law, and N. T. Wright Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. The Jesus We'll Never Know: Why scholarly attempts to discover the 'real' Jesus have failed. And why that's a good thing (Scot McKnight, Christianity Today, 4/9/2010). Responses: N. T. Wright: We Do Need History, Craig Keener: Jesus … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Jesus, Law, and N. T. Wright Edition