As we begin a new year, guest blogger Jim Klaas urges us to be intentional about making learning a life-long adventure. What did you learn this past year and what do you want to learn this coming year? A great question to orient ourselves for 2026. … More New Year Resolution: Be a Life-Long Learner
“We Canadians make massive imports of culture unawares,” warned Calvin Seerveld. “I do not believe there is a sinister American plot to take over our nation,” he continued, but he wanted to stand on guard against any kitsch slinking in from the USA. This is what he said at a CBC radio conference in May 1990, but his words, like most of his writing, continue to ring with prophetic resonance today. … More God Picks Up the Pieces: A Personal Journey with Calvin Seerveld
I’ve often been asked how I reconcile physics with my Christian faith. For some, the two seem incompatible: science is about facts and equations, while faith is about belief and mystery. But for me, and for many others working at the interface of science and theology, the relationship is far more nuanced, and far more beautiful and compelling. … More Quantum Physics and the Credibility of Christian Faith: A Personal Reflection
Here I review Mouw’s intellectual autobiography. His approach to academic life has been a great example of crossing intellectual boundaries and engaging both faithfully and civilly. … More Mouw as Scholar Saint: Living Out a Dialogical Pluralism as a Reformed Evangelical
Here I review the memoir of Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff. He is a kind of model Christian scholar–not only because he wrote seminal works that have championed a Christian worldview; but because he was a committed citizen of institutions and communities that in turn prompted him to write about the pressing issues of the day. … More Reason Within the Bounds of Christian Tradition: Wolterstorff’s Covenantal Philosophizing, Together with Others
Here Sara Pot reviews Andrew Barron’s latest book on the subject of disability and Christian faith. While theological, the book is also deeply personal, as Barron writes: “Rafi is the ongoing source of my ethics and sense of responsibility.” … More Reflections on Disability and Difference: How Proximity Impacts Perspective
Four of Global Scholars’ office staff reflect on a board member’s book on gender bias in Bible translation. Did you know that the views of translators affect the words that are chosen for translation? … More Gender, Faith, and Scripture: Translation as Interpretation Bias
We give thanks to God and to a persistent scholar whose faithfulness in the task of book-making has opened up channels for the expansion of Christian ministry in Africa – through the training of new ministry leaders. This is the story of the development of a Greek language textbook for Africans to learn the original language of the New Testament. … More An Arduous Journey: The Making of an Appropriate Tool for Biblical Literacy in Africa
A few notes from our vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina and our education in the history of racism. The kids were out of school, but learning in a different way about their world and our calling as Christians. … More A Holiday of Racism: Education Beyond the Classroom
He is one of the key Canadian voices when it comes to the notion of faith deconstruction, and he’s just published his 18th (or so) book entitled Out of the Embers: The Great Deconstruction this past fall. Angela Bick and I interviewed him for our own forthcoming book on deconstructing Canadians with New Leaf Press. He gave us a friendly, personal, and at times poignant conversation about his de/reconstruction with Jesus, “history’s all-time, hinge-point proponent and practitioner of de/reconstruction.” … More Deconstructing Deconstruction: Jersak’s Chronicle of Spiritual Detox
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