Fides Quaerens Intellectum

C.S. Lewis once said “pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”  This week at the IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) campus our students have been tackling the problem of evil and suffering, most [...]

Spring 2002 saw the conclusion of my doctoral coursework at Baylor University, and one of my seminar papers that semester focused on faith, learning and the concept of Baylor as a training grouds for proper citizen formation.  As part of my research, I had the opportunity to interview (then) President Robert Sloan, who is now president [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!               In May 2005, I had the privilege of visiting Wheaton College and spending nearly an entire day with president Duane Litfin.  We discussed, among other things, the landscape of Christian higher education in the United States and the current challenges that institutions face both internally and externally.  I also had the [...]

In his book The Idea of a College (1959), educator and Harvard chaplain D. Elton Trueblood identified the American cultural assumption regarding the purpose of higher education:   “Millions, when they think of college, think primarily of one thing—how can the student be prepared most perfectly or most quickly to do the work associated with [...]

Welcome to my first-ever blog entry!  As much as I try resist the modernist assumption that technology-as-progress represents a good in itself (devoid of all other concerns), it seems inescapable that communication through cyberspace is too common (and expected) to be ignored.  If this is one way that we can create a community of ideas, then [...]