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What I learned this weekend
It was good to get back to conferences this weekend. I forgot how much there is to learn through attending conferences and how much face-to-face engagement is so much more effective at stimulating thinking than ZOOM events. On Thursday I...
Christian historians and the “imago Dei”
Earlier today I posted on the politicization of the Judeo-Christian belief that human beings are created in the image of God. In this post, I want to cover how a belief in the imago Dei informs how I do history....
The Challenge of Christian Liberal Arts in This Pandemic and Beyond
Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota will cut thirty faculty positions this week. Today, at Messiah College, we learned about how the administration will cut seven million dollars from our budget over the course of the next five years. I...
Some Thoughts on the Audience of *Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump*
Who is the audience for Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump? There are three audiences. Here they are, in no particular order: The 81% of white American evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump. The 19% of white American evangelicals (and...
“Loyalty and respect not present in any other kind of social criticism.”
Christian academics occupy a very lonely space. We are not entirely trusted, and often looked upon with suspicion, by our faith communities. We are also not entirely trusted, and often looked upon with suspicion, by the academic communities we inhabit....
Alvin Plantinga: Philosopher
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Brief Thoughts on Paper Presentations at the “State of the Evangelical Mind” Conference
The last few days I have been posting on some of the keynote lectures at the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference held last week in Indianapolis. You can read all the posts here. In this final post I want...
John Hawthorne Reflects on the “State of the Evangelical Mind” Conference
One of the joys of attending the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference last week was the opportunity to meet fellow Christian scholars in person that I have only interacted with via social media. One of those scholars is John...
The Seminary and the “Evangelical Mind”
Lauren Winner is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture on Christian thinking in theological seminaries was one of the highlights of “The State of the Evangelical Mind” conference in Indianapolis. First, Winner observed that evangelical...
An Open Letter from Christian Scholars on Racism in America
I have attached my signature to this statement: Like many Americans, we are grieved by recent events in Charlottesville. The white supremacist rally there showed that overt racism is alive and well in America, and that it can turn violent...
Grant Opportunity for Emerging Christian Scholars
Apply for the 2017 Christian Scholars Foundation Grant. What do scholars in Chemistry/Biochemistry, English/American Studies/Religious Studies, Church History, Mathematics, and Psychology have in common? They’re all ESN Members who have received funding from the Christian Scholars Foundation. You can read...
Scott Culpepper's "Call to Courageous Christian Scholarship" in the Age of Trump
Scott Culpepper teaches history at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. In a guest post at The Anxious Bench he exhorts Christian scholars to courageously pursue their vocations in the age of Trump. It is a wonderful piece. Here is...
Robert George: A Christian Scholar on the Spiritual Disciplines
As many of you know, I am very interested in the ways that my Christian faith informs what I do as a scholar, historian, and teacher. Back in 2011 I joined my friends Jay Green and Eric Miller in editing Confessing...
*The Secularization of the Academy* Turns 25
It all started in 1990 with a conference at Duke on secularization and the academy. (At the time I was a first year divinity school student. The internet did not exist yet and I had no idea that this conference...
Tweeting the 2014 Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History
If you have been reading this blog or following my twitter feed (@johnfea1) you know that I just returned from the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (CFH). This year’s CFH was special. It was held in...
R.R. Reno on The Christian Intellectual
Thomas Aquinas: Christian scholar R.R. Reno, the editor of First Things magazine, posted a nice piece yesterday on the characteristics of a Christian intellectual. Here are a few of my favorite passages: Even when we swim against the stream there’s a deep […]
Is “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” Unlikely “To Reach Most Evangelicals”?
This week’s Books & Culture podcast focuses on Roger Lundin’s new edited collection, Christ Across the Disciplines. David Bebbington wrote the essay on the discipline of history. Listen here. John Schmalzbauer wrote the essay on sociology. In it he mentions...
It’s Official: “Books and Culture” Survives!
Here is the latest tweet from Books & Culture editor John Wilson: Wonderful news: We reached our goal for @booksandculture : Thank you! And here is a letter from Christianity Today CEO Harold Smith: Dear Friends, Never in my 30 […]