What effects do people like Guillermo, who come to the United States to pick our produce for a low hourly wage, have on the overall economy? Does immigration hurt the American worker? Are foreign workers even needed? What about the costs of providing education, healthcare, and other public services to these people? Can our country afford to welcome so many immigrants? Could we afford not to have them here? From a Christian perspective, these questions ought not to be primary: the scriptural witness is that we are to … [Read more...] about The Value of Immigrants to the United States. Part 9 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series
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Science in Review: The Evolving Healthcare Market
How do we provide the best possible healthcare for the most people and how do we pay for it? Those are not purely scientific questions, but I have some personal and professional interest in how we answer those questions, as a healthcare consumer and someone whose job connects to the health sector at multiple points. Last week's nonvote on a replacement for the Affordable Care Act was undoubtedly a milestone in the conversation about those questions, but it was not the final word by any stretch. Healthcare costs continue … [Read more...] about Science in Review: The Evolving Healthcare Market
Book Review: Flourishing, by Miroslav Volf
Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World, Miroslav Volf. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. Summary: Volf argues that the twin globalizing forces of international economics and world religions, problematic as they may be, may also be the source of rich and holistic flourishing for the human community. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Flourishing, by Miroslav Volf
The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqIWGAKDfa8 Earlier Bob Trube, Senior Area Director, IVCF/USA shared the transcript (with minor edits) of The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities, a presentation he gave at the IFES World Assembly (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 7/22/2015). Now the video is available online and the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) doesn't want you miss it! Furthermore, we encourage you to find an opportunity with peers to discuss the four "change" forces in the university that offer both challenges … [Read more...] about The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities (Video)
The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) interrupts their regularly scheduled programming to bring you the transcript (with minor edits) of a presentation given by Bob Trube, Senior Area Director, IVCF/USA, at the IFES World Assembly (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 7/22/2015). In considering The University Today, Bob addresses four "change" forces in the university that offer both challenges to and opportunities for mission in the university. After presenting, he received a number of requests for … [Read more...] about The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities