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. More on Waltke: Christianity Today has published a summary of the story of Bruce Waltke's resignation and reactions to it. If you remember, ESN posted a long summary of the situation with many links. 2. Putting Abortion on the Curriculum: In … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Culture Gaps, Identity, Transitions
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Children, universities, and hard decisions
Tomorrow, I'm leaving for our Midwest Faculty Conference, featuring John Sommerville as our plenary speaker. (Check out my quick review of his book, The Decline of the Secular University, as well as his latest essay in the Chronicle, "Universities Are Corporatized Because They Are Secularized".) Since starting these summer faculty conferences a few years ago, we've tried to make them times of refreshment - for both faculty and their entire family. Our planning team even coined a new word for these events - … [Read more...] about Children, universities, and hard decisions