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Writing Exercises My Respect Muscles (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)

February 26, 2017 by Christine Jeske No Comments

In South Africa where I lived for many years, the basic “hello” greeting, sawubona, translates literally, “I see you.”

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Filed Under: Academic Ethics, Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Devotional, Life in the Academy, Public Intellectuals, Vocation Tagged With: anthropology, devotional, writing about data, Writing As a Spiritual Discipline, Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Spring 2017 Series

Lent: Frames of Reference and a Global Perspective (Scholar’s Compass)

March 1, 2015 by Kevin Birth No Comments

Anthropologist Kevin Birth explores the church calendar in the second of a two part series.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: anthropology, Bolivia, clock, lent, Lent 2015, Scholar's Compass, time

Scholar’s Compass: Lent and Easter’s Timing

February 26, 2015 by Kevin Birth 2 Comments

Why does Easter happen when it does? Anthropologist Kevin Birth explores the church calendar in the first of a two part series.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: anthropology, easter, lent, Lent 2015, Passover, Scholar's Compass, time

Omri Elisha: The Moral Ambition of Evangelical Christians

January 15, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson 12 Comments

Last year, I began a series reviewing academic perspectives on evangelical Christians, beginning with James Bielo’s Words Upon the Word and T.M. Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back. I’m picking up this series again with Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches by Queens College anthropologist Omri Elisha. Elisha’s work came highly recommended by […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Moral Ambition Tagged With: anthropology, Evangelicalism, knoxville, omri elisha, social outreach

Evangelicals and Suffering (When God Talks Back)

October 2, 2012 by Micheal Hickerson 3 Comments

When God Talks Back book cover

Last week, in my discussion of what evangelicals can learn about themselves from T.M. Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back, I mentioned our approach to suffering. Originally, I wasn’t going to write another post on the book, but I wanted to come back to this important topic. Luhrmann discusses suffering in a chapter titled, “Darkness,” along with […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, When God Talks Back Tagged With: anthropology, evangelicals, grief, Prayer, Psalms, Suffering, t.m. luhrmann, When God Talks Back

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