What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. 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. 1. Faith and Freedom (Inside Higher Ed, June 9): Our brothers and sisters to the north are facing an interesting debate. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (the largest Canadian faculty association) has begun a campaign to … [Read more...] about Week in Review: World Cup Edition
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Must Reads for an American College Education?
Do you have a set of must reads which you believe should lie at the foundation/base of a college education (i.e., American college education), no matter the institution, e.g., Christian college/university, community college, engineering/tech school (e.g., Carnegie Mellon University or MIT), Ivy League, liberal arts college, state university? If so, what are they and why? Below's a recent email from a faculty friend regarding his alma mater, Harvard. it's sad but the harvard faculty could never approve anything like … [Read more...] about Must Reads for an American College Education?
Speaking in Tongues
This article has been sitting in my "guilt file" for a while. Last fall, Dan Edelstein wrote in Inside Higher Ed about the decline of foreign language requirements, leading off with this anecdote about a famous multilinguist: When the young François-Marie Arouet was a student at the Jesuit collège Louis-le-Grand in 18th-century Paris, he spent many of his classroom hours studying Latin, along with a little ancient Greek. Had he ventured over to the nearby Collège Royal, today the Collège de France, he could have … [Read more...] about Speaking in Tongues
Week in Review: Faith, Reason, and YouTube Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. 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. 1. Mike will write a longer post about this on Monday, but Bruce Waltke's departure from Reformed Theological Seminary – following his appearance in a video posted on the Biologos Foundation's website – has been making big news. (In case you … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Faith, Reason, and YouTube Edition
Week in Review: Anxiety Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. 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. 1. Peace is Patriotic: Anabaptists and the National Anthem (By Duane Shank, Sojourners, 3/3/2010): Did you attend a college sporting event where the national anthem of the host country was not played? Goshen College, a residential Christian … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Anxiety Edition