Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Last evening a tornado ripped through the campus of Union University (www.uu.edu), IMPACT 360′s (www.impact360.net) academic partner. Having talked with one of our alums who is now taking his degree at Union, they are estimating the damage to the campus physical plant to be in the tens of millions. The good news is that no [...]

C.S. Lewis once wrote “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.” An encounter I had recently while staying in Pennsylvania reminded me how true this really is. I had been doing dissertation research in PA earlier this [...]

  Although I’m not an unqualified George Barna fan (his persuasiveness really tanks when he tries to do theology instead of survey research), I do find much of his research on evangelical faith and its outworkings to be helpful.  A 2006 study done by his group gets at the heart of why IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) [...]

IMPACT 360′s (www.impact360.net) guest professor this week is Mr. John Stonestreet.  Stonestreet is Associate Professor in the Bible Department at Bryan College (www.bryan.edu)– teaching courses on worldview, apologetics and cultural exegesis–and is the Director of Summit Ministries, Eastern Region (www.summit.org).  He’s teaching on how Christian worldview ought to impact our understanding of bioethical challenges in this day [...]

In my years of working with college students–from freshmen to seniors–at least one thing is clear:  they usually don’t know what to do with their leisure time.  If  they’re not in class or working on a paper, then they’re probably plugged in to their ipods, or perhaps chatting or gaming on the internet.  Maybe even a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]