Guest writer Harry Fernhout offers a message on the meaning of the crucifixion for the vocation of a scholar or anyone who seeks a deeper wisdom for life. … More Higher Education and the Foolishness of the Cross: Lenten Reflections of I Corinthians 1
Brain drain is typically understood as the growing trend of educated, emerging leaders from developing countries emigrating to foreign nations that offer better vocational opportunities, higher pay, and more desirable living conditions. This essay argues that a flourishing African continent requires students to invest in their homeland, and that methods need to keep motivations in mind. … More Brain Drain in African Higher Education: Motivations and Methods for Bolstering African Educational Opportunities
Publications, appointments, awards and prizes, scholarships, bursaries and residencies may be the proofs of proficiencies in our worldly academic domains, but the gifts of good judgement, thoughtful restraint, humble presence, the seeking of truth, compromise, self-sacrifice, perseverance and mutual respect in the clamouring – at times, now contentious – hallways of the academy are still the most tangible ways we can share God. … More On Learnedness: A September Meditation in Light of the Queen’s Reign
Dr. Justin Cooper reflects on his ten years serving on Global Scholars Canada board through three signature Biblical texts, highlighting shifts in missional focus and organizational strategy. … More REFLECTIONS ON MY TEN-YEAR JOURNEY WITH GLOBAL SCHOLARS CANADA (GSC)
This guest blog is Derek Schuurman’s interview with Jacob Shatzer, author of a book on faith and transhumanism. Transhumanism is a movement that seeks to enhance human cognition and longevity through technological development. … More Transhumanism and the Image of God: an interview with Jacob Shatzer
A meditation for Passion Week. We have built monuments as proof; reminders of how ‘we’ as a nation have been forcibly forged in times of crisis. There are few things that Canadians would consider ‘lording’ over American neighbours, but Brock’s Monument on Queenston Heights, seen by hundreds of Americans daily, stands facing and pointing somewhat tauntingly at New York State across the Niagara River. It is here that the so-called, “Saviour of Upper Canada” is buried. … More The Cross of Christ, Towering Over the Wrecks of Time: A Meditation Upon the Passion
The university years are critical: critical to your profession, to your friendships and probable marriage, and to your likely geographic commitments. Realize that universities shape you in their image, narrative, and priorities. They get to your heart, and they offer you a dream. Unfortunately, much of the curriculum is invisible… … More Should I Enrol at a Public or Christian University? A Guide to the Invisible Curricula (Part 1)
In a world that champions STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) his guest blog from Dr. Deborah Bowen argues for the perennial value of the Humanities for understanding others, ourselves, and the world which leaders hope to change for the better… … More Why Bother with the Humanities in a Time of Global Crisis?
A biblically Christian worldview is well positioned to compensate for the compartmentalization we see in the secular academy. After all, our most basic confession as Christians is that our world belongs to God, which has huge ramifications for our task as academics. If God has brought into being an orderly creation subject to his laws and norms, we can come to our respective fields of scholarly endeavour confident that they find their place within an integral whole sustained by God himself through Jesus Christ. … More Taking the Bible Seriously in Scholarship
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