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. All-Nighters: Failing to Fall (Siri Hustvedt, NY Times Opinionator, March 3, 2010): Do you find your imagination flourishing as you fall asleep, so much so that you fail to fall asleep? How do you address not being able to fall asleep when … [Read more...] about Week in Review: All-Nighter Edition
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Amish Grace & Pop Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ViK9fIZUIw Film depicting Nickel Mines shootings questioned (Cindy Stauffer, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, 03/01/2010) ran frontpage in south central PA the day after Donald Kraybill, one of the authors of Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, spoke for the Emerging Scholars Network in partnership with Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ (click here). If you are unfamiliar with the Amish and you are interested in learning more, I encourage you to begin by reading a … [Read more...] about Amish Grace & Pop Culture
Week in Review: Christo et Ecclesiae 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. Why Harvard Students Should Study More Religion (Lisa Miller, Newsweek): A look at Harvard's (lack of) religion in its undergraduate curriculum, with special attention to Louis Menand's attempt to include a course called "Reason and Faith" in … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Christo et Ecclesiae Edition
Week in Review: The Valiant Return 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. Alan Jacobs' Grad School Thoughts: Should you go to grad school? "Probably not," writes Alan Jacobs, Wheaton English professor and author of Original Sin, The Narnian, A Theology of Reading, and many other excellent things. But if you insist, … [Read more...] about Week in Review: The Valiant Return Edition
Humanity Revisited
What Is Integration? began a quote series from Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective* (Paul D. Spears and Steven R. Loomis, InterVarsity Press, 2009). Below's a section from Chapter 1 where Spears and Loomis establish their understanding of biblical anthropology. We have argued that human beings are composed of a material body and an immaterial soul, and that the soul directs the body's actions ultimately through its rational capacities. The development of these rational capacities through a … [Read more...] about Humanity Revisited