two handed warriors

Dean Batali, ‘That 70s Show’ Writer and Producer, Shares His Greatest Cultural Influencers

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

One of today’s most articulate voices for faithful engagement in culture, Dean Batali, is best known for his work on That ‘70s Show, where he served as a writer for seven years and as an executive producer for the show’s final season.

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.

Where are the Christians in Academia? by Gabe Lyons

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

“The LORD has chosen Bezalel and filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of arts, as well as the ability to teach others.” –Exodus 35:30-33 We’re still field testing the new Two Handed Warriors web format for our January 2012 relaunch. This article from Q Ideas [...]

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.

Michael Warren, Legendary TV Writer and Producer, Shares His Greatest Influences

Monday, January 17, 2011

Michael Warren, prolific TV Producer and Writer for shows such as Happy Days, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, and Step by Step shares his 15 greatest cultural influencers.

Hollywood Responds to “Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God”

Friday, November 12, 2010

The goal of Two Handed Warriors is to foster an ongoing conversation seeking to redefine, re-envision, and then reconstruct the relationship between faith and culture. Toward that end, I am posting a few responses to Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God from leaders in the Hollywood community in hope it might spur others [...]

Higher Education Responses to “Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God”

Thursday, November 11, 2010

The goal of Two Handed Warriors is to foster an ongoing conversation seeking to redefine, re-envision, and then reconstruct the relationship between faith and culture. Toward that end, I am posting a few responses to Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God from leaders in the educational community in hopes that it might spur [...]

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 [...]