Fides Quaerens Intellectum

A recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution has me thinking.  See my post on the Touchstone Magazine blogsite.  JDB

Summer is the time of year that professors, student life administrators, and mentors get Facebook messages and calls from students who have deeply impacted their lives both spiritually and intellectually over the course of the just-finished academic year.  They want to share how life is going in the interim.  It is the same for us [...]

My friend and colleague Hunter Baker, Assoc. Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Union University, has some sound counsel for freshly-minted college grads in his recent post. http://hunterbaker.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/advice-to-new-graduates-in-recessionary-times/  

See my most recent thoughts on this in a recent post entitled “Millennials and Free Markets” on Touchstone Magazine’s blogsite Mere Comments.  Cheers!  JDB

More on the CA roundtable I mentioned in the last post–USC philosopher and author Dallas Willard was with us. Much of the discussion focused on how to impact the secular university, and, among other ideas and observations he offered,  Dallas had this to say: “I’m most concerned about [the Christian] students who are going out [...]

Millions of young Christ-followers began their university journey this month.  How will they fare with regard to their worldview and overall approach to life?  Statistics

Marana (my wife) and I recently returned from a cruise vacation to the Bahamas, the purpose of which was to celebrate the completion of the Ph.D. that I started back in the fall of 2000.  Fantastic experience (the cruise, that is); ready to go back.  One afternoon a small advertisement on the wall of the [...]

Each year Del Tackett, author of the Truth Project, comes to facilitate student learning.  I’m always struck by his genuine concern for the millennial generation and the unique challenges faced by its emerging leaders.  Here are his reflections following his spring 2010 visit.

About a year ago one of our students asked me a question that I thought ranked fairly high on the profundity scale, especially given that she was only 18 years old.  “What are the things we do on this earth that we will take with us into eternity?”  As she clarified her question, I discovered [...]

The hot-off-the press issue of the Biola magazine (I did my M.A. at Biola U in CA) features a provocative article–”Is Prayer a Priority in a Twitter World?”  It references the recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life which shows that younger folks (ages 18-29) are the least likely group of [...]