Former MN seminary student, Craig Wright, darkly explores a theology of grace, not in the pulpit, but on the stage. Four murder-suicide victims rise from the dead to explain the paradox of how a ‘Christian’ businessman with a vision for…
BET adds spiritual themes to primetime By CYNTHIA LITTLETON in Variety New telepic franchise, reality show have religious touch BET TV, like a number of general entertainment cablers, has renewed faith in spiritually themed programming. The Viacom-owned cabler is expanding the range of…
Investigating the Meaning of Humanity in a Technological World A festival bringing together filmmakers, scholars, students, and the public to view and discuss three feature films asking important questions about science and the soul. Saturday, October 13, 2012 Sutherland Auditorium…
A diminished sense of higher education’s purpose is a problem facing all liberal-arts institutions. By George David Clark in the Chronicle for Higher Education Rob Jenkins’s recent warnings about the tendency of politicians to reduce community colleges to “job-training centers” strike me as particularly…
The third of five reflections on The Spiritual Lives of Christian College Students based upon Todd’s national research project, including Spiritual Transformation Inventory data from over 5,000 students attending CCCU and ABHE colleges and universities. by Todd W. Hall, PhD When we look at how students’ spirituality changes…
“The earlier in the day I write, the more likely I am to: a) write that day, and b) write more that day.” …………………………….-Genevieve Parker Hill by Author and World Traveler, Genevieve Parker Hill I’m deep in the thickets of drafting my…
by Maria Popova “We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.” Poet, playwright, and cultural critic T. S. Eliot was born 124 years ago Sept. 26th. In this passage from The Use of Poetry and…
Our language determines our realities, not the other way around.
by Exfontibus I was thinking of Heaven as I was reading William Butler Yeats‘ classic poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (below) a couple of days ago. Suddenly it struck me how terrible it would be if Heaven were just a place we…
A few precautions can keep a friendly debate from becoming an ungodly bloodbath by Clint Archer of TheCrippleGate.com A seminary cafeteria (or a church coffee bar) can be a veritable gunslinger’s saloon of theological repartee. Quick minds, earnest souls, armed to the teeth…
by Mike Friesen Soren Kierkegaard once said, “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely…