The Holy Spirit and the Liberal Arts: The Future of Two-Handed Higher Education
The common perception that orthodoxy finally prevailed because of “One Athanasius against the world” is far too individualistic an interpretation. The battle was actually, “One Christian college...
View ArticleEmmy Magazine’s Interview with Kurt Schemper, Korey Scott Pollard, and Gary...
SERIES INTRO: Soul-Nourishing Practices in a Soul-Deadening World “The entertainment industry is no different than any other place with lonely people searching for gladness.” -Emmy Award-winning...
View ArticleJonathan Edwards Goes to Movies: What Story Structure Teaches Us About...
The inciting event presents the hero with a decision: Shall I continue in the relative comfort of my business-as-usual life, or risk pursuing a new and more dangerous goal? A lot like Lent is designed...
View ArticleStory Failure: Why We ‘Lose it’ in High Stress Environments, by Gary David...
The stories, beliefs and strategies we develop to survive life's most painful experiences inevitably fail us in high stress environments. Here's why.
View ArticleLife on the Fast Track: Spiritually Thriving in High Stress Environments
Contrary to popular belief, the most commonly used drug in Hollywood is not cocaine. It's adrenaline.
View ArticleCrash Goes the Worldview: Why Character Transformation Requires Changing Scripts
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then we are constantly flattering the individuals and communities who have transmitted their “scripts” to us. But how do we change our story if we're a...
View ArticleFiddler on the Roof: Worldview Change and the Foundational Power of Story
Like Tevye, the stories of Scripture provide not only fertile soil for nurturing reinterpretations of our philosophy and culture for a new generation, but also irresistible bedrock for grounding the...
View ArticleCasablanca and the Four Levels of Worldview: Why Everyone Meets at Rick’s
y changing the foundational story of Rick's life from that of a self-centered love-betrayed to the story of a other-centered love renewed, Ilsa transforms Rick's values and rule of life as well. (Part...
View ArticleBungee-Jumping to Eternity: The Existential Angst of Dead Poets Society
Part of ongoing series: Hollywood and Higher Education: Teaching Worldview Thru the Stories We Live By “Carpe Diem! Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” -Mr. Keating (Robin Williams)...
View ArticleIdeas Have Consequences: The Power and Limits of Existentialism, Dead Poets...
Part 9 of series: Hollywood and Higher Education: Teaching Worldview Thru the Stories We Live By “No matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” -Mr. Keating (Robin...
View ArticleThe Greco-Roman Liberal Arts: When Students were more than just Numbers
Whereas Plato and Aristotle interacted with their students as friends, the depersonalized modern university student is often little more than a number. No relationship means no moral transformation, at...
View ArticleWith Prayer in the School of Christ: Higher Education and the Knowledge of...
For Jesus prayer and education were inseparable, because education and the knowledge of God are inseparable.
View ArticleSaint Patrick and the Missional Future of Christian Higher Education
The patron saint of Ireland is rarely credited with what was perhaps his greatest achievement. (Hint: It's not green beer.)
View ArticleDo America’s Colleges Need Revival?
Before we can learn anything from Jonathan Edwards, we first need to humble ourselves as he did on that fateful day in 1734, when he finally admitted that "business as usual" was failing his students.
View ArticleRevival and Moral Philosophy: A Puritan Vision for American Higher Education
The leaders of these colleges were key to a surprising intellectual synthesis of revival and common-sense moral philosophy that dominated American thinking from 1790 to 1865 and which led to the...
View ArticleThe College Chapel: Puritan Relic or Campus Hot Spot?
If James K. A. Smith is correct that Jesus establishes particular 'hot spots of sacramentality' and endues them with a special sense of God's presence, then the Christian college chapel needs to be a...
View ArticleAwesome Passover Video: What if Moses had a Facebook Page?
What if Moses had a Facebook Page?
View ArticleWith Prayer in the School of Christ: Higher Education and the Knowledge of God
For Jesus prayer and education were inseparable, because education and the knowledge of God are inseparable.
View ArticleWhy Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ Is a Prophetic Message We Can’t...
On May 10, my daughters showed me Childish Gambino's (Donald Glover's) deeply disturbing Youtube sensation "This is America." That evening, a department store in a suburban Knoxville shopping mall...
View ArticleThe Contested Color of Christ: How the image of Jesus has been made and...
The First Great Awakening was one of the few times in American history when the church actually led the way in racial unity.
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