Educating for Life: Professors Professing Their Faith as Well as their Disciplinary Knowledge

May 10, 2024

A REVIEW OF: Jonathan Pettigrew and Robert H. Woods, Jr. (eds). Professing Christ: Christian Tradition and Faith-Learning Integration in Public Universities. Pasco: Integratio Press, 2023, pp. xxxii +199, £13.67/$17.00 (ISBN: 978-0-9991463-3-0). (A version of this review first appeared in the Society of Christian Scholars Book Review page.) “If I fail as a professor to include religion and … More Educating for Life: Professors Professing Their Faith as Well as their Disciplinary Knowledge

The Christian Scholar’s Role in an International Academic Movement: Sierra Leone’s Scholars Unite!

March 22, 2024

Notes from my visit to Sierra Leone, West Africa. I give specific details from the first meeting of Christian scholars interested in working together across the country in league with the international Society of Christian Scholars, with which Global Scholars is a partner. … More The Christian Scholar’s Role in an International Academic Movement: Sierra Leone’s Scholars Unite!

After Abuse, Still the Sanctuary: Living Stones of the Spiritual House Whose Cornerstone Never Fails

March 7, 2024

A meditation by Pastor Carel Geleynse urging Christians to imitate their Lord and restore the reputation of the church in an age of startling abuse and cultural polarization. … More After Abuse, Still the Sanctuary: Living Stones of the Spiritual House Whose Cornerstone Never Fails

An Arduous Journey: The Making of an Appropriate Tool for Biblical Literacy in Africa

February 29, 2024

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

Eschatology 101: The Problem with Saying “We Go to Heaven When We Die”

February 12, 2024

Many Christians live with a distorted understanding of death and heaven, and it is mostly because we get our cues from near-death experiences and other Platonic stories of the after-life. Here I explore some Reformed, Biblical teaching on “the new heaven and the new earth.” … More Eschatology 101: The Problem with Saying “We Go to Heaven When We Die”

Holden Caufield vs Holling Hoodhood: Teens as Alienated or Mentored into Adulthood?

January 25, 2024

The novel Catcher in the Rye was written by American author J. D. Salinger in 1951 and has been standard high school fare since, with a million books still sold each year and a place on the top 100 books of the century. But it has been one of the most censored books in America and I think it is time to put it on the shelf. … More Holden Caufield vs Holling Hoodhood: Teens as Alienated or Mentored into Adulthood?

Church Music, Conflict and Reconciliation: Scriptural, Spiritual, Sonic, and Symbolic Implications

December 7, 2023

Music is a common conflict source within congregations, but worship wars are not the only reason for Sunday morning to be tense. How can we work toward reconciliation through music and other parts of our worship services? In a world so torn by conflict, can the church model some peace-making? … More Church Music, Conflict and Reconciliation: Scriptural, Spiritual, Sonic, and Symbolic Implications