Two-Handed Warriors

9th Annual 168 Film Festival Begins Tonight In honor of tonight’s opening of the 168 Film Festival I wanted to share a clip from a past festival winner that struck me as eerily relevant to the current controversy swirling around love, hell, and Rob Bell (not necessarily in that order.) As my family was going through [...]

Great insights from one my favorite bloggers Margaret Feinberg. As I shared earlier this month, I’ve decided to give up prayer for Lent. Okay, maybe not all prayer, but lengthy prayers in my personal time with God because I realize how mindless, increasingly unspecific, and inattentive in my prayer life. That’s why I’m giving up prayer [...]

I’ve read a lot of great responses regarding what the Rob Bell controversy teaches us about the current state of “Christian-Christian” relationships in America.  None is better than this post by one of my favorite former students, 20-something blogger, and friend Mike Friesen. He reminds us that sometimes Hollywood echoes the truth of “Knowledge puffs up, [...]

I’ve had quite a bit of interest in Kenda Creasy Dean‘s work since last week’s post on Saint Patrick and the Missional Future of Christian Higher Education.  I highly encourage you to read her entire book Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church. However, this interview with Kenda by [...]

Whether you agree with his perspective or not, God has uniquely prepared Miroslav Volf to be a voice of reason and Christlike compassion in the politicized world of Muslim-Christian relations. . A VOICE ACROSS THE GREAT CHASM by Chris Keller & Miroslav Volf in The Other Journal. (Used by permission.) Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor [...]

  I asked Margaret Feinberg if I could repost her thoughtful response to Rob Bell’s book release interview with Lisa Miller on Monday. She is one of my favorite authors and bloggers and I think she raises all the right questions about what we can learn from this entire episode regardless of where you stand [...]

The University of the South, better known as Sewanee, is reducing the cost to attend the school next year by 10 percent… and turning the business of college upside down.

New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has been a great help to my wife Sue and I (she’s the biblical scholar) in developing a much more nuanced understanding of the First Century Jewish world into which most of the NT was addressed. If you believe that the primary meaning of biblical texts is found in what [...]

New study by right leaning Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) shows civic leadership lacking in college grads. Wilmington, DE – Typical college mission statements normally include aspirations to cultivate informed citizens who are politically active and engaged.  A startling new report on civic literacy statistically proves that these goals are not achieved by U.S. colleges and [...]

A decade ago, two economists published a research paper arguing that elite colleges did not seem to give most graduates an earnings boost. A new version of the study, covering data from 19,000 students, comes to the same conclusion.

Clarence B. Jones is the former personal counsel, adviser, draft speech writer and close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He is a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. His personal, insider’s account of the 1963 March On Washington, Behind The Dream: The Making of [...]

Richard Flory, one of my very bright former colleagues at a stalwart CCCU school, is currently associate research professor of sociology and senior research associate at the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture. In the aftermath of the Rob Bell universalism controversy Richard is asking some very tough questions confronting leaders of [...]

Cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman offers some good news for Hollywood Creatives who feel as if you have multiple personality disorder–YOU DO! Well, sort of. Drawing upon the research of Claremont Graduate University professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kaufman reports in the Huffington Post that “Creativity researchers… have long-ago accepted the fact that creative people are complex. Almost by definition, [...]

Theology books rarely create pre-release Twitter-trending firestorms. Yet that is exactly what has happened in advance of next week’s (3/15) release of Rob Bell’s Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Of course, Rob Bell is no ordinary theologian. An heir to the solid evangelical heritage of [...]