Fides Quaerens Intellectum

As I’ve been making my way through professor Leland Ryken’s (father of current Wheaton College president Phillip Ryken) book Redeeming the Time:  A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure, I’ve been reminded once again of the importance of viewing life holistically.  The Puritans certainly emphasized

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/  

This week Trent Wilbanks and I are team teaching our final module for the academic year.  Cultural transformation is the topic, and Andy Crouch’s book Culture Making is the backbone text.  Concept of the week?  Power.  Crouch says that cultural power is “the ability to successfully propose a new cultural good.”  As it turns out, [...]

JP Moreland, my former philosophy professor who is still very much a mentor to me, made his annual pilgrimage back to IMPACT 360 this month, and we got into a discusssion of “real” education.  Here are a few of his thoughts: “…as I’ve said before, we are not human beings seeking a spiritual life; we [...]

“Who stands fast?   …the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.  Where are these responsible people?”    ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Over the years I have consistently been amazed at a particular organizational dynamic that emerges within nonprofits, and how that dynamic drives–and in some cases determines–hiring decisions.  That dynamic is urgency.  “Let’s get someone to fill the position asap!”  Just get a body in there.  Interestingly, urgency in these situations often breeds passivity.  Far too [...]