higher education
Willie Jennings’s plea to create a new kind of theologian
After Whiteness is urgent reading for any institution that purports to care about God and race.
The advantages of a universal program
Creating space for a different kind of engagement
It’s not clear that college applicants will be the ones served by another number to measure them.
Christian humanism in a technocratic world
Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis
They were black, Latino, and white. They were whispering and laughing together.
Theological educators don't just teach a particular kind of content. We also model a process for engaging with sensitive issues.
Thank you, Professor David Barash. In his first-year biology class, Barash begins with something he calls “The Talk.” He understands that a “substantial minority” of students come in unprepared by their religious backgrounds for the complexity and strangeness of evolutionary biology. They fear that the study of biology might challenge their “beliefs.” So he takes it upon himself to clear up what vestiges of William Paley and William Jennings Bryan remain among students.
"Church of Pakistan college principal beaten," read the headline. I am that principal.