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The Author’s Corner with Edward B. Davis
Edward B. “Ted” Davis is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University and a Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion. This interview is based on his new book, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion […]
Howard Thurman and the civil rights movement
Black Perspectives is running an online forum on civil rights activist and Christian mystic Howard Thurman. Here are the pieces they have published: Tejai Beulah Howard, Howard Thurman’s Biographer: An Author Interview with Peter Eisenstadt Dorsey Blake, Beyond Faiths and […]
Why don’t more theology students take history courses?
At the school where I teach there are ample opportunities for students to shape their intellectual experience through a double “major” or a “minor” or two. Just the other day, for example, I was talking to one of my academic […]
Raphael Warnock: theologian
If you haven’t seen it yet, Gary Dorrien has published a fascinating piece at Commonweal. on re-elected Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock It provides several first-hand of accounts of his years at Union Theological Seminary (where Dorrien teaches) and his relationship […]
The latest musical number from N.T. Wright and Francis Collins
N.T. Wright is one the world’s most prominent biblical scholars. Francis Collins is the former Director of the National Institutes of Health. Watch: See their first collaboration here:
“The humanities face continued marginalization despite increasing evidence of the broad civic and social harm that results from neglecting them.”
The quote in the title of this post comes from Grant Kaplan’s piece “The Crisis in Catholic Theology” published last week at America. Here is a taste: Today, although concern for the future of Catholic universities remains high, relatively little […]