My InterVarsity colleague James Paternoster emailed me the following in response to my recent posts on anti-Christian and anti-academic rhetoric, and he agreed to let me share his words with you. James, Tom, and I — along with 140 of our closest friends — will be in Chicagoland this week for our Graduate and Faculty Ministries staff meetings, where we'll be discussed the topic "Campuses Renewed" with George Marsden, Santa Ono, and Don Davis. Thank you, James, for these thoughts. ~ Mike Mike asked the other … [Read more...] about Guest Post: Antagonism, Christian Unity, and the Need for Wisdom
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What’s Your Strategy for Controversy?
Almost two weeks ago, Comment published my article Is That Disagreement Religious—or Political?, about the political differences between evangelical academics and their academic colleagues. Here's my opening paragraph: In the political conflicts between right and left, evangelical Christian faculty are often in danger of being squeezed in the middle. Not only are they frequently out of step with the academic political mainstream, but the strong connection between evangelicalism and conservative politics outside the … [Read more...] about What’s Your Strategy for Controversy?