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“Bright Sadness”

March 3, 2023 by Carrie Bare No Comments

Some have called the season of Lent the time of “bright sadness.” This is such an interesting phrase. What is bright about sadness?

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“Remember You Are Dust”

February 24, 2023 by Carrie Bare No Comments

“I don’t love thinking of myself this way. Dust? Seriously?”

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Loving the University: Engaging the Big Questions on Your Campus

February 20, 2023 by James K. A. Smith No Comments

steel gate of brown brick building

What it means to love the university as an institution as participants, and not combatants, in a shared enterprise

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Filed Under: Love Your Campus, The Four Loves Tagged With: Challenges, Despair and hope, Participant, truth, wonder

Conference Report: Developing a Christian Mind at Oxford January 2023

February 17, 2023 by Jeff Barneson No Comments

What might it mean to let God remold your mind from within?

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Developing a Christian Mind Conference

Science Corner: Don’t It Make My Blue Whale Big

February 8, 2023 by Andy Walsh No Comments

What’s the first book of the Bible you think about when you think about whales? Maybe next time it will be Judges instead of Jonah.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: blue whale, proteins, pseudogenes, science, science corner

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