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Christian intellectual life

Speaking from Mars Hill

Jon D. Schaff   |  August 30, 2024

Hosted by the indomitable Ken Myers, Mars Hill Audio (MHA) is a more than three-decade effort to bring the best of scholarship to the attention of thinking Christians.

David Bentley Hart’s newest book is out (and so is my review in Christianity Today)

Nadya Williams   |  August 27, 2024

David Bentley Hart’s newest book reminds that for much of human existence, people were more Thales than Richard Dawkins.

More on that David French piece on the “moral collapse” at Liberty University

John Fea   |  October 24, 2023

In case you don’t know what I am talking about in the title of this post, get up to speed here. I am sure that Liberty University and its supporters will dismiss French’s piece as yet another hit job by […]

A Prayer before Study

John Fea   |  September 18, 2023

Creator of all things,true Source of light and wisdom,lofty origin of all being,graciously let a ray of Your brilliancepenetrate into the darkness of my understandingand take from me the double darknessin which I have been born,an obscurity of both sin […]

Eighteen hours in Madison, Wisconsin

John Fea   |  April 21, 2023

Yesterday I spent the day with the impressive staff of Upper House, the Christian study center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was in Madison to participate in an interfaith faculty dialogue on listening and democratic discourse […]

“On the Evangelical Mind and Consulting the Faithful”

John Fea   |  October 21, 2022

In September 2017, the founders of Current (Jay Green, Eric Miller, and yours truly) participated in a conference in Indianapolis on the “State of the Evangelical Mind.” (This was 3-4 years before we launched Current). We spoke at a session […]

“Anti-Intellectualism and the Integration of Faith and Learning”

John Fea   |  October 20, 2022

In September 2017, the founders of Current (Jay Green, Eric Miller, and yours truly) participated in a conference in Indianapolis on the “State of the Evangelical Mind.” (This was 3-4 years before we launched Current). We spoke at a session […]

A prayer before study

John Fea   |  August 25, 2021

From St. Thomas Aquinas: Ineffable Creator,Who, from the treasures of Your wisdom,have established three hierarchies of angels,have arrayed them in marvelous orderabove the fiery heavens,and have marshaled the regionsof the universe with such artful skill, You are proclaimedthe true font of light and wisdom,and the primal originraised high beyond all […]

Christian intellectual life: “strategy” or “vocation?”

John Fea   |  April 9, 2021

Read Ross Douthat’s recent piece on Christian intellectuals. Now read Alan Jacobs’s critique of it. Here is a taste: It’s rare for me to disagree with Ross Douthat as thoroughly as I disagree with this reflection on Christian intellectuals. I disagree […]