The Marks of a Christian Scholar: A Vocational Description (Part One) Mark Eckel, ThM PhD, Professor of Leadership, Education & Discipleship[1] Capital Seminary & Graduate School, Washington, D.C. “The Christian scholar-teacher must be a person who believes in Christian higher education, who is committed to the mission of his or her institution. It is not enough to hire faculty who happen to be Christians, even if they are fine scholars. We must find and keep faculty who are committed to the project.” … [Read more...] about Getting a “Big Head”?
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Book Review: Being Religious, American Style
Popular religiosity is a phenomenon of every culture. Popular religiosity is the personal, informal expressions of religious belief that flourish outside the structures of formal belief. And these have played an important role in American religious history, according to Charles H. Lippy[1] in Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States. From the Puritans in New England to African American slaves in the south to contemporary charismatic movements and "New Spirituality" … [Read more...] about Book Review: Being Religious, American Style