Ard Louis[1] The calling of Christian postgrad students and academics (1/29/2012) from oxfordchristianmind (52 min, 52 sec). Description: What does our calling to be disciples of Christ mean for our academic vocation (whether temporary as students or longer term as a career)? What are some of the promises and pitfalls of the scholarly life? How can academics and postgraduate students serve and relate to the wider body of Christ (the Church)? Getting to know Ard Louis (Reader in Theoretical Physics at the … [Read more...] about The calling of Christian postgrad students and academics — Ard Louis
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Book Review: Being Religious, American Style
Popular religiosity is a phenomenon of every culture. Popular religiosity is the personal, informal expressions of religious belief that flourish outside the structures of formal belief. And these have played an important role in American religious history, according to Charles H. Lippy[1] in Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States. From the Puritans in New England to African American slaves in the south to contemporary charismatic movements and "New Spirituality" … [Read more...] about Book Review: Being Religious, American Style
Book Review: Wisdom & Wonder
Wisdom & Wonder: Common Grace in Science & Art, Abraham Kuyper, edited by Jordan J. Ballor and Stephen J. Grabill, Trans. Nelson D. Kloosterman, Christian's Library Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2011. -------------- Wisdom & Wonder contains a new translation of chapters written originally under the title Common Grace in Science and Art. Common Grace refers to God's preservation and self-revelation within the created order, which is imperfectly but universally available. It is revelation by the … [Read more...] about Book Review: Wisdom & Wonder
Book “Review”: The Cost of Discipleship
I'm not going to attempt to "review" such a classic work. Rather, I thought I would comment on what I thought were some striking themes in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship (1937). One thing is the theme of unqualified obedience to Christ. One of Bonhoeffer's chapters is "The Call of Discipleship" and I think that may have been an even more appropriate title for the book. The call is both a gracious call, one we need but don't deserve, and a call to implicit, unqualified obedience in following Christ, … [Read more...] about Book “Review”: The Cost of Discipleship
In God We Trust: A July 4th Conversation on the Historian’s Vocation & the Church
The assistant rector at Christ Church in Philadelphia, the Reverend James Abercrombie, once preached a vehement sermon protesting the “unhappy tendency of’those in elevated stations who invariably turned their backs upon the celebration of the Lord's Supper.” Though Abercrombie did not name names, then President George Washington, who was in attendance that day, took the message to be aimed directly at him and thought it “a very just reproof.” Washington's custom had long been to excuse himself from church when it … [Read more...] about In God We Trust: A July 4th Conversation on the Historian’s Vocation & the Church