Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power by Andy Crouch (InterVarsity Press, 2013). I think many of us have developed our understanding of power from Lord Acton's axiom: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. For most of us, that is the end of story and this accounts, at least among many Christians I know, for a deep aversion to anything like the exercise of power. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Playing God, by Andy Crouch
human flourishing
A Liturgy for the new year
When in the final stages of completing the new InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries (GFM) website, I came across a number of InterVarsity twentyonehundred productions videos focused on Following Christ and Human Flourishing in the context of higher education. I incorporated several of these videos into the new GFM site. Others will be shared in a variety of other GFM platforms, including here on the Emerging Scholars Network Blog :) Update (1/4/2014, 9:24 am): A Liturgy (3 min, 22 sec) is part of Get … [Read more...] about A Liturgy for the new year
Following Christ 08 resources coming on-line
On InterVarsity's main website, one can find two articles Honoring God at Work Human Flourishing AND two audio files Why Aren't We Flourishing? -- Opening Plenary by MaryKate Morse, Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at George Fox University. Time: 35:00 Powerful Faith -- Seminar presentation by Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University and the author of Faith in the Halls of Power. The seminar in which Michael Lindsay spoke was entitled Exploring Privilege and Redeeming Power. … [Read more...] about Following Christ 08 resources coming on-line