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Book Review: Mind Your Faith

October 15, 2013 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

Ideas have consequences. The Holocaust began as an idea, argues David Horner*. Thinking well and loving God with our minds is thus an essential calling for Christians. Horner dedicates  Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide to Thinking & Living Well  to helping university students, especially undergraduate first years, grasp what it takes to think and live well in their university years and beyond. Horner begins with our minds. He talks about what we mean when we talk about something being true, how to think about … [Read more...] about Book Review: Mind Your Faith

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: character, David Horner, discipleship of the mind, doubt, faith and reason, Holocaust, Huguenots, intervarsity press, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, loving God, Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide to Thinking & Living Well, thinking

Christian Devotional Classics: The Imitation of Christ

September 1, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it. – Thomas ‘a Kempis Thomas à Kempis Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 - 1471)  lived in the midst of the crisis of the late medieval period.  Although there had been relative stability and population growth in the High Middle Ages  (1000-1299), the  Late Middle Ages (1300-1500) began with the challenge of "The Great Famine" (1315-1317). The Great Famine led to crime, disease, and millions dead including children abandoned by parents and elderly letting … [Read more...] about Christian Devotional Classics: The Imitation of Christ

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Augustinian Cannons, character, Christian Devotional Classics, The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis. monasticism, virtue

Faithfulness In the Preparation

August 26, 2013 by Monica Greenwood Leave a Comment

When I first realized that the taking the Graduate Record Exam © was on my horizons, I trembled a good bit. As my friends burned, sold, and threw away their textbooks after finals, I ordered two test preparation books and settled down for two months of math, reading, and writing prep. It was in the midst of my math study doldrums that Tom Grosh IV [Associate Director of the Emerging Scholars Network] asked me to consider writing a post about preparing to take the exam. I told him I would brainstorm some ideas, but I … [Read more...] about Faithfulness In the Preparation

Filed Under: Advice for Entering Graduate School, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: calling, character, faithfulness, Graduate Record Exam, GRE, relationships, studying

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