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Science Corner: The Top-Down Route to your Community

November 4, 2015 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

HL  asks: What I am seeing is that the understandably busy lives of even highly motivated Christian professionals often lead them to become more and more isolated from those parts of society most in need of outreach, friendship, and fellowship from Christians. So’how can those in the hectic years of research, working on getting those final papers done for the PhD, etc., not lose touch with the problems within their own local community? … [Read more...] about Science Corner: The Top-Down Route to your Community

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: community, local communities, neighbor, neighborhood, science, science corner, science reader question

Changing the World with James Davison Hunter

August 2, 2010 by Micheal Hickerson 4 Comments

Cover of To Change the World

Michael Hickerson wrote the below review when he served as the Associate Director of the Emerging Scholars Network. Each year, the InterVarsity Faculty Ministry Leadership Team (FMLT) read a book together that (we hope) gets at some aspect of our ministry to the university. Our book for this year was James Davison Hunter's To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). If you've not read it yet, you should. Hunter, a … [Read more...] about Changing the World with James Davison Hunter

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: church, culture, culture-making, james davison hunter, local communities, To Change the World

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