One of the interesting things about my life is that I have the pleasure of inhabiting a number of intellectual worlds that, by and large, don't often come together. As an employee of a moderately evangelical campus ministry, a teaching elder in a mainline presbyterian denomination, a chaplain at a university, and someone who lives … Continue reading Inerrancy: an Augustinian view
Category: Higher Education
Making a life or making a living?
Imagine sitting down with a financial planner and in addition to totaling your bank accounts and mapping your investments, you also mapped your significant relationships and explored your relationship to your home.
Four things I love about international travel
Tomorrow I'll be traveling to join my wife who has spent the last week in Oxford, UK. She's been participating in the Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford program at Wycliffe Hall. I'll spend the last three days of her program exploring book shops, pubs, and the town. Then, we'll spend three days together touring C … Continue reading Four things I love about international travel
The curious case of the praying valedictorian
My Facebook feed has recently started to light up with editorial responses to the young man in South Carolina who, as valedictorian of his graduating class, set his prepared remarks aside and elected to recite the Lord's Prayer in violation of the school district's prohibition of religious observance. Here's the video. http://youtu.be/1nIr4zBz18E Your response to … Continue reading The curious case of the praying valedictorian
Five reasons the church should care about the arts
The evangelical church must make significant progress in valuing and embracing the arts. This is the case both because the arts are inherently valuable (they're valuable because of what they are as well as what they do) and because the arts play a critical role in the formation of culture.
