On InterVarsity's main website, one can find two articles Honoring God at Work Human Flourishing AND two audio files Why Aren't We Flourishing? -- Opening Plenary by MaryKate Morse, Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at George Fox University. Time: 35:00 Powerful Faith -- Seminar presentation by Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University and the author of Faith in the Halls of Power. The seminar in which Michael Lindsay spoke was entitled Exploring Privilege and Redeeming Power. … [Read more...] about Following Christ 08 resources coming on-line
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Reaching “The End of Education?”
While posting Colleges ignore life's biggest questions, I was reminded of Neil Postman's The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School -- a book which I believe after a dozen years still remains a must read for those involved in education. In my review of The End of Education, I conclude: Postman's The End of Education provides an excellent critique of the current approach to schooling and education, but fails to assert a compelling alternative for the follower of Christ. In the end, a sense of the … [Read more...] about Reaching “The End of Education?”
Colleges ignore life’s biggest questions
Last fall Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale, kicked off the academic year with a Boston Globe op-ed entitled Why are we here? Colleges ignore life's biggest questions, and we all pay the price. In response, Comment hosted an excellent on-line mini-symposium with several scholars including Steven Garber (Director, Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture), Dr. James K. A. Smith (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College), and Greg Veltman (Ph.D. Student, University of … [Read more...] about Colleges ignore life’s biggest questions