Yesterday, the Emerging Scholars Network kicked off a Worldview Question-and-Answer series withJames W. Sire.* As I have considered the development of Sire's thought on worldview, I have come to even more deeply embrace the importance of how one's life story is understood in the context of God's Story, such as what Sire shares in his newly e-published memoir Rim of the Sandhills (2012). In Chapter 3, he writes: My imagination did not need to be the source of other experiences of the holy. Once Marjorie and I came … [Read more...] about Jim Sire: Excerpt from “Rim of the Sandhills”
James Sire
Jim Sire Addresses: Is Atheism a Worldview?
I've had the privilege of knowing James W. Sire, Ph.D., since my college days. Sire served as a senior editor at InterVarsity Press and authored a number of books published by InterVarsity Press including The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog, Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling, Learning to Pray Through the Psalms, and Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept. Our paths crossed several times during my years as a student at Grove City College. I heard him speak not only at … [Read more...] about Jim Sire Addresses: Is Atheism a Worldview?