Yesterday, Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, the culture war wing of the largest Christian university in the world, held a 1-day conference titled “Get Louder: Faith Summit 2020.” Evangelical Trump supporters were encouraged to yell and scream more, fight more, and […]
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Calvin's Beatles
Four of the greatest Christian thinkers of the last generation once taught together at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They are philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, historian George Marsden, and theologian/philosopher Richard Mouw. Plantinga taught at Calvin from […]
The Conference on Faith and History and the Christian Right: Darryl Hart Enters the Fray
Mark Edwards’s post at Religion in American History, in which he suggests that the Conference on Faith and History is the intellectual arm of the Religious Right, is getting some attention in the blogosphere. I did a post about it […]
Burkholder on Pietism, Intellectual Life, and “Confessing History”
Jared Burkholder of Grace College is thinking about the ways that Christian faith might inform the life of academic communities. It looks like he is trying to provide an alternative vision to the Reformed or “Kuyperian” approach to higher education […]