Fides Quaerens Intellectum

A number of IMPACT 360 alumni and other former students came to mind when I read this snippet from C.S. Lewis today:  “But I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering.  I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the [...]

This spring an article in Time magazine entitled “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal” really woke me up.  For years I’ve used the late Harvard political philosopher Robert Nozick’s thought experiment called “the experience machine” (found in Nozick’s book Anarchy, State, & Utopia) to generate discussion with my students and to ask a few key [...]

Church-related liberal arts colleges historically tack to the left and eventually separate from their founding denominations.  James Burtchaell, a Catholic scholar and author of The Dying of the Light:  The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998), has outlined the way in which this usually takes place.  How [...]

This post is courtesy of Bethany Pickett, IMPACT 360 alumna from the class of ’09  She is currently working on her B.A. at The King’s College in NYC. Nice going Bethany.  -JDB Last week, I found out Richard Dawkins was going to be speaking at a local Barnes and Noble. I couldn’t miss this opportunity [...]