Tonight, as part of Biblical Seminary's Conversations on Christianity & Culture lecture series, Andy Crouch speaks on Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power. What are your thoughts on the topic? Any questions I should ask the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (InterVarsity Press, 2008), winner of Christianity Today's 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture? I'll take some notes and share what he presents. PS. Culture Making is one of my Favorite book[s] … [Read more...] about Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power
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Can New Symbols Change Academic Culture?
Two weeks ago, I was at InterVarsity's Cedar Campus for our 2009 Midwest Faculty Conference. John Sommerville, professor emeritus of history at U. Florida and author of The Decline of the Secular University, was the featured speaker. He spoke about the influence of secularism on the ideas and structures of the university (as he has previously written in the Chronicle), but also discussed new opportunities for Christian scholars in a "postsecular" university. The third of his four talks addressed a key question: How … [Read more...] about Can New Symbols Change Academic Culture?
The Central PA Christian Scholars Network
Last weekend, my fellow blogger Tom Grosh launched the Central Pennsylvania Christian Scholars Network with an event called "Culture Making on Our Campuses," featuring Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. (Here's more about the book from Tom himself.) Over 70 people attended, and it sounds like it was a wonderful beginning to a new community of Christian students, faculty, and scholars. Tom has written up a complete recap of the event that we'll be publishing in this month's … [Read more...] about The Central PA Christian Scholars Network
Keeping “to-do lists”
Are to-do lists a helpful tool to getting things done? Or do you find them frustratingly long and seemingly insurmountable? Or do you find them buried under papers or in old documents/post-it notes on your screen, wall, door? Or do you somehow ignore to-do lists entirely? Thanks to Andy Crouch's 5 Questions post on to-do lists, I've had quite a few good conversations with friends and family on this topic. Two pastors of my local congregation have given some interesting feedback on the topic. One quipped that he … [Read more...] about Keeping “to-do lists”