Over at the main ESN website, we've recently published a couple of book reviews that you might be interested in. Foundations of Christian Parenting My co-blogger Tom Grosh has reviewed Wise Stewards: Philosophical Foundations of Christian Parenting by Michael W. Austin, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University. Among the many differences between the undergraduate and grad school/faculty worlds is the change in life stages, including marriage and children. If you're interested in integrating … [Read more...] about New Book Reviews: Christian Parenting, Religious Bias
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How do we practice a faithful presence?
Last week, I offered my review of James Davison Hunter's important book, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. A central idea of Hunter's is that Christians ought to be a "faithful presence" in their community of faith, their tasks, and their spheres of influence. Today, I want to focus on the second of those items: our tasks. I think there's a parallel between one of the mistakes people make in inductive Bible study - seeking to jump too quickly to … [Read more...] about How do we practice a faithful presence?
Changing the World with James Davison Hunter
Michael Hickerson wrote the below review when he served as the Associate Director of the Emerging Scholars Network. Each year, the InterVarsity Faculty Ministry Leadership Team (FMLT) read a book together that (we hope) gets at some aspect of our ministry to the university. Our book for this year was James Davison Hunter's To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). If you've not read it yet, you should. Hunter, a … [Read more...] about Changing the World with James Davison Hunter
Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power
Tonight, as part of Biblical Seminary's Conversations on Christianity & Culture lecture series, Andy Crouch speaks on Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power. What are your thoughts on the topic? Any questions I should ask the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (InterVarsity Press, 2008), winner of Christianity Today's 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture? I'll take some notes and share what he presents. PS. Culture Making is one of my Favorite book[s] … [Read more...] about Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power
Is there a Christian intellectual presence on your campus?
A few different strands of thought came together for me this morning in the form of a question. Let me throw out the question first, and then elaborate. Is there a public Christian intellectual presence on your campus? Here are the threads that came together for me. First, in our recent book discussion of John Stott's Your Mind Matters, Stott describes a kind of intellectualism that is very public. For example, in chapter 3, he "examines six spheres of Christian living, each of which is impossible without the … [Read more...] about Is there a Christian intellectual presence on your campus?