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
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Happy Birthday, John!
Today is John Milton's 400th birthday - or, rather, would have been. If you choose to celebrate this occasion, you can visit the John Milton Reading Room at Dartmouth, which contains ALL of Milton's poetry (in English, Italian, Latin, and Greek) and selections from his prose, along with annotations. (HT: The Wired Campus) … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday, John!
Warranted Christian Belief and CCEL
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is an incredible resource for theological and devotional classics. It specializes in free or low-cost public domain books. For example, don't have $300 to plunk down for an entire edition of the Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers? Download them from CCEL. Today, I received notice that CCEL has obtained permission to publish Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000). Here's CCEL's description of this highly regarded book: Warranted Christian … [Read more...] about Warranted Christian Belief and CCEL
New Technology and Academic Research
A few links to pass along, regarding connections between new technology and academic research. The Chronicle's Wired Campus blog last week reported on academic uses for Google Earth, such as a map of county-by-county election results, dating back to 1840. Alice Marwick has posted an annotated bibliography of academic research on LiveJournal. (HT: danah boyd, who has also compiled a bibliography on social network research) Online social networks are one of my (many) casual interests. Any other links on this topic … [Read more...] about New Technology and Academic Research
New Podcast Series from Christianity Today
Christianity Today has launched a new podcasting series featuring "editorials, news and books commentaries" (iTunes link). I just subscribed, and noticed that it looks like ESN partner Books & Culture will be featured regularly. There are already two podcasts with B&C editor John Wilson, discussing recent books by Rodney Stark and Christopher Buckley. Personally, I enjoy listening to John Piper's sermon podcasts and Mars Hill Audio's Audition, as well as my guilty pleasure, ESPN's BS Report with Bill Simmons. … [Read more...] about New Podcast Series from Christianity Today