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Do We See the People or Their Poverty?

August 1, 2011 by Kami L. Rice Leave a Comment

Kami Rice continues her guest series  for the Emerging Scholars Blog  about her journey to India.   Since the day my high school youth group reported to our congregation about our mission trip to Brazil, when some of the other kids–some of whom had discussed, as we drove through Miami during our debriefing time, which fancy new car they wanted their parents to buy for them–poured stories into the microphone about how poor the people were, I've had an uneasy relationship with how church people talk about … [Read more...] about Do We See the People or Their Poverty?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Heading East Tagged With: big questions, Book recommendations, culture-making, economics, Incarnational Stream/Tradition, india, poverty

Week in Review: Nobel Prize Edition

October 9, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Our Week-in-Review feature has a new format. We know there's way too much to read out there already, so we're going to be highlighting the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we've been reading or thinking about the past week. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. Academic Nobel News - The Nobel Prizes are being handed out this week, and, as usual, academic researchers did quite well. The prize for Medicine went to Elizabeth … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Nobel Prize Edition

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Public Intellectuals, Week in Review Tagged With: atheism, capitalism, economics, emerging adulthood, morality, noble prizes, religion

Week in Review: Numbers Edition

September 11, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson Leave a Comment

Our Week-in-Review feature has returned, with a new format.  We know there's way too much to read out there already, so we're going to be highlighting the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we've been reading or thinking about the past week.  If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. Welcome to Your Quarterlife Crisis - Kevin Offner, who works with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries in Washington, DC, tipped us off to … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Numbers Edition

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: economics, math, Mentoring, mentors, quarterlife crisis

Week in Review

July 10, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 7 Comments

Welcome to this week's Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom Historic Bible pages put online (BBC News, July 6, 2009):   Check out "virtual re-unification" about 800 pages of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, i.e., the earliest surviving Christian Bible, at www.codexsinaiticus.org. Is it a The rival to the Bible (BBC News, Roger Bolton, October 6, 2008)? Is Having More Than 2 Children an Unspoken Taboo? (Robin … [Read more...] about Week in Review

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: academic trends, benedict xvi, economics, family, jobs, On-line Bible, phd

Christians and the “empirical prison” of economics

January 16, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson 1 Comment

Andy Crouch asks a very good question about Christian integration in economics: David Brooks gets it just right. We are not machines, and neither is our economy. So where, oh where, are the Christian economists whose work is deeply informed by a non-mechanistic view of human nature, and the 'faith and trust' that economies require?' Brooks is writing about the "empirical prison" of economics on both the right and the left. I have some thoughts, but let's hear yours first. Who are the Christian economists we ought to … [Read more...] about Christians and the “empirical prison” of economics

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Public Intellectuals Tagged With: economics, integration

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