A few quotes from Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies to challenge and encourage us to strategically steward the words, nourishing conversations, and truth we have been given to share as “little Christs.”
Quotes
Is Reality Secular? Part 2
What is real? . . . If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain (43) Material Naturalism With the above quote from The Matrix (1999), Mary Poplin introduces Part 2 of Is Reality Secular? What is the nature […]
Is Reality Secular? Part 1
Is reality secular? Is adequate knowledge secular? And is that something that has been established as a fact by thorough and unbiased inquiry? Is this something that today’s secular universities thoroughly and freely discuss in a disciplined way? (11) Mary Poplin wastes no time in establishing the centrality of Dallas Willard’s questions to Is Reality Secular? What […]
Is Reality Secular?
I am glad to call attention to this book by Mary Poplin of Claremont Graduate University. Is Reality Secular? is a challenge, by an insider to the secularism that is now assumed, with no significant evaluation, to be the height of intellectual respectability and that dominates the most elevated and the most inclusive levels of higher […]
Quote: Simone Weil on Studying
The Week in Review is taking a vacation during the month of August, so that Tom and Mike can focus on preparing for the upcoming academic year. In its place, we’ll be posting good quotes on the connection between faith, life, and learning. If you have a good quote, share it with us in the […]