Last week, John Stott went to be with the Lord. As an author, theologian, and working pastor, few people have had as large an influence on evangelical Christianity around the world over the past 100 years. Fittingly, his death came during the IFES World Assembly, a global gathering of evangelical university ministries, symbolic of Rev. Stott's lifelong passions for the Gospel, the university, and global Christianity. FYI: I've listed a collection of obituaries and remembrances of John Stott's life at the bottom of … [Read more...] about Can Intellectuals Also Be Activists? (John Stott Remembered)
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New Book Reviews: Christian Parenting, Religious Bias
Over at the main ESN website, we've recently published a couple of book reviews that you might be interested in. Foundations of Christian Parenting My co-blogger Tom Grosh has reviewed Wise Stewards: Philosophical Foundations of Christian Parenting by Michael W. Austin, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University. Among the many differences between the undergraduate and grad school/faculty worlds is the change in life stages, including marriage and children. If you're interested in integrating … [Read more...] about New Book Reviews: Christian Parenting, Religious Bias
Week in Review: St. Olaf and Husbands 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. Mike here. Tom has spent the week in an intensive theology course, so I'm tackling the Week in Review solo. This is a great opportunity to clean out my "guilt file" - articles that I've had bookmarked for weeks and haven't had a chance to write … [Read more...] about Week in Review: St. Olaf and Husbands Edition
Is Exile the Best Paradigm for Christians in the Academy?
I've been working through some thoughts left over from my reading of James Davison Hunter's To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. This is probably my last post on this book, unless, of course, I think of something else. In searching for a new paradigm for Christian engagement with the world, Hunter suggests Jeremiah 29, God's word to Israel as they were about to go into exile among the Babylonians. Jeremiah 29:11 is the most often quoted verse from this … [Read more...] about Is Exile the Best Paradigm for Christians in the Academy?
Week in Review: Kuyper at the World Cup 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. Christian Philosophy, Anyone? I spent a week in May with about fifteen other people, reading and discussing key sections of a four-volume tome with the forbidding title A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. Most of those present confessed … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Kuyper at the World Cup Edition