David Russell Mosley chats with ESN about writing a novel and a PhD thesis at the same time, publishing them both for a wider audience, and why beauty matters for Christian academics. Read more…
Science Corner: Siri, Compose a Sonata
One of the benefits of teaching a computer how to do a task like composing music is that it forces us to really understand both how we ourselves accomplish that task and how we know when we’ve succeeded.Read more…
Imago Dei: Culture and Creativity (Part 3 of 5)
The Christian church has left a profound impact on the world’s culture, at some times operating from a position of power, at others acting from the margins of society. Read more…
“Your crooked heart”: Literary Study and Spiritual Formation (Scholar’s Call)
Act III of Shakespeare’s King Lear gets to me every time.Read more…
Ambition and Identity: Interview with Bruce Huber
I hope that Christian scholars will be emboldened to excel in their work while wholly immersing themselves in the story of God. Integrating faith and scholarship is difficult in many fields. We haven’t always been very imaginative in how we’ve undertaken that. We should do all we can to nurture conversation and push the frontiers of thought in that connection.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Myth Made Fact
I love reading fairy-tales and fantasy. That’s probably become evident from the very first devotion looking at creativity according to Milbank. There is a good chance that part of my love of these stories from the Perilous Realm, as Tolkien calls it, comes from my upbringing.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: The Fantastic and the Real
David Russell Mosley continues a three part series exploring how human creativity participates in God’s creativity. Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Creativity as Gift
Today, David Russell Mosley begins a three part series exploring how human creativity participates in God’s creativity, a subject he explores as a scholar of theology and writer of poetry.Read more…
“Animals and Atoms”: The Creative Imagination and the Body of Christ (Scholar’s Compass)
Angela O’Neal on the Romantic poets at #ScholarsCompass.Read more…
Science Corner: Name that Everything!
For this week, I couldn’t choose between a pair of items about science as exploration of the unknown, so I didn’t.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass Navigating Knowledge: Creativity That Delights
What do chemistry and Tolkien have in common? Dave Vosburg explains at #ScholarsCompassRead more…
Science Corner: Out with the Old?
What do you make of the case presented for stifled creativity in science research? Read more…