Fides Quaerens Intellectum

“The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education would primarily train people to be able to think in Christian categories…” -T.S. Eliot

Son of Westminster’s blogpost the other day on David Dockery and his blog interview on faith and learning in the Christian college inspired me to post something in the same vein, although what follows here is just a bit older by comparison.  Noah Porter, president of Yale in the late nineteenth century, delivered the keynote address at [...]

NBC 10 in Philly reports: The father of the 16-year-old who killed himself inside his high school Tuesday over a less-than-satisfactory report card urged students at a candlelight vigil to listen to troubled classmates. His son, Shane Halligan, died after he put what appeared to be an AK-47 to his chin and pulled the trigger [...]

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 [...]