As I continue to work my way through the Hitchens book god is not Great (2007), I’m simultaneously trudging through a recent work by one of Hitchens fellow New-Yorkers, Rev. Tim Keller. It’s pretty clear that Keller, pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, churned out The Reason for God: Belief in an Age [...]
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Protestant atheism, cont’d
June 23rd, 2008 No Comments
Protestant Atheism
June 9th, 2008 1 Comment
A few days ago a I picked up highly acclaimed atheist Christopher Hitchens’ book god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (no, that’s not a typo…he chose–or perhaps the publisher did– a lower-case “g” in coming up with his title). Hitchens, a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School for Social [...]
War, Pacificism & “Miami Virtue”
April 12th, 2008 3 Comments
This past week a 19 year-old student sat in my office troubled by a certain aspect of her past, namely the fact that she descends from a long line of conservative Pennsylvania Dutch pacifists. For a few weeks at IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) we’ve been working through systems and issues in ethics, and it was [...]
D’Souza on Evil and Atheism
November 15th, 2007 No Comments
I recently picked up Dinesh D’Souza’s new book at the urging of a friend and colleague, and I’ve been very pleased with it thus far. The chapter on the problem of evil is required reading for the IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) students for next week, which is when we rollo out the module on evil and [...]
Scholarship and “Serving God Wittily”
July 8th, 2007 No Comments
Since I started graduate school in 1997 I’ve appreciated the thoughtfulness that University of Chicago scholar Jean Bethke Elshtain has brought to bear on seemingly countless topics of faith and culture. In my most recent wanderings through an as yet unread book on faith and learning in my personal library (although I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit I [...]
T.S. Eliot on Christian education
March 30th, 2007 No Comments
“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
Stonestreet, Lewis & the telos of open-mindedness
March 5th, 2007 No Comments
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 [...]