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Beauty Will Save the Soul: Part One

Over the course of the next few days, we will be posting parts of Matthew Vest’s essay Beauty Will Save the Soul. Keep posted for each part. * [Socrates:] I am amused, I said, at your fear of the...

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Bad Books Promiscuously Read: A Reflection on Assigning Objectionable Texts...

hen we set rules about what can and cannot be read, we may indeed be shielding students from falsehood and sin, but are we not also limiting the ways that they can learn to distinguish what is true and...

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In Praise of Inefficiency

Ask anyone who knows me (or better, ask my wife), and they will tell you that efficiency isn’t my strong suit. In our fast-paced, results driven world, my inefficiency is a supreme liability. My iPhone...

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Rape and the Christian University (Part 2)

Yesterday, I posted a few thoughts on the nature of rape. Today, I want to turn to the question of what we can do to stop this phenomenon of rape on our campuses. Just like my previous post, these are...

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Organizing Enlightenment at a Christian University

Organizing Enlightenment, by Chad Wellmon, charts the way eighteenth-century German universities developed as a response to an overwhelming amount of printed information. Much like the contemporary...

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Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part series on an interdisciplinary course I taught with a colleague this semester: Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Science Fiction through the Lens of...

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Alan Jacobs on Trigger Warnings

Earlier this summer, I started a post about trigger warnings. As I combed the internet doing research, I stumbled across this gem by Alan Jacobs. In this post, Jacobs talks about guiding students...

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Gift, Studiousness, and Core Values

There are a number of things I appreciate about Paul Griffiths’ Intellectual Appetite, but chief among them is his treatment of the intellectual and spiritual dispositions that fit the Christian way of...

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Thoughts on Academic Community

Wendell Berry writes* that there is “a kind of knowledge, inestimably valuable and probably indispensable, that comes out of common culture and that cannot be taught as a part of the formal curriculum...

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Educational Technology’s Inflated Promises

I recently came across a slender book that aims to redesign liberal education using digital technologies. Titled Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem, it...

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