Higher education | Two Handed Warriors

With Prayer in the School of Christ: The Liberal Arts and the Knowledge of God

Sunday, May 13, 2012

For Jesus prayer and education were inseparable, because education and the knowledge of God are inseparable.

The Greco-Roman Liberal Arts: When Education Meant Friendship and Heart

Friday, March 23, 2012

Whereas Plato and Aristotle called their students friends, today’s students are often little more than numbers. The liberal arts vision of generating a steady stream of truth-seeking leaders to flood our culture with virtue has clearly fallen on hard times.

Saint Patrick and the Liberal Arts: The Missional Future of Christian Higher Education?

Saturday, March 17, 2012

The patron saint of Ireland is rarely credited with what was perhaps his greatest achievement.. “I am driven by the zeal of God, Christ’s truth has roused me. I speak out too for love of my neighbors who are my only sons; for them I gave up my home country, my parents and even pushing [...]

The End of Teaching as We Know It, by Alvaro Gonzalez-Alorda

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

As a follow up to the J.R. Miller’s wildly successful article “Flipped Theology: How Flipping Your Classroom Increases Learning,” we turned to one of the top slideshares on the new teaching revolution in higher education. by Alvaro Gonzalez-Alorda Six Key Drivers of Educational Technology to Watch and Five Challenges Higher Education Institutions need to Face [...]

Rabbinic Higher Education: Culture-Making, The Life of the Mind, and the Word of God

Sunday, July 17, 2011

If the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth. — Chaim Potok, In the Beginning Rabbinic Judaism forms a second important stream for understanding how higher education was originally designed to [...]

The Greco-Roman Liberal Arts: When Students Were More Than Just Numbers

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Whereas Plato and Aristotle called their students friends, today’s students are often little more than numbers. The liberal arts vision of generating a steady stream of truth-seeking leaders to flood our culture with virtue has clearly fallen on hard times.

Tough Questions for Christian Colleges: The End of the (Evangelical) World As We Know It, by Richard Flory

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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 [...]

Video: Malcolm Gladwell Challenges Accuracy of US News College Ranking System

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Think the U.S. News and World Report rankings tell you which colleges are best for students? Think again.

The Holy Spirit and the Liberal Arts (Series Introduction)

Friday, November 5, 2010

Higher education has played a key role in the history of training two handed warriors. Ever since the formation of the first “Christian” college—a catechetical school connected to the Roman rhetorical school at Alexandria in the second-century, learning communities have often excelled in forging faith-building with culture-making. Although God can and certainly has worked through [...]