A collection of my colleagues have produced a wonderful little book entitled, Practically Human: College Professors Speak from the Heart of Humanities Education, published by the new Calvin College Press (who’ve produced a very handsome text). It’s an engaging, accessible manifesto of sorts, articulating the unique strengths of a liberal arts education that values the…
When David Smith and I convened the working group that would eventually lead to the publication of Teaching and Christian Practices: Reshaping Faith & Learning, our goal was to start a conversation, not issue an edict. We always had the sense that we were tentatively exploring new ground, raising new questions, experimenting with some hypotheses….
From Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. Nisbett (Cambridge UP, 1991), 196: “When a father asked him for the best advice about the best way of educating his son in ethical matters, a Pythagorean replied: ‘Make him a citizen of a state with good laws.’” Draw your own analogies.
Last spring when I was in New York I had really hoped I could score tickets to Tony Kushner’s play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, but didn’t. (Most will know Kushner from Angels in America.) Especially for someone like me, who’s sympathetic to voices like Ross Douthat and Charles Taylor and John…
While I was in Australia I was interviewed by David Rutledge for “Encounter,” a program on ABC’s Radio National (think of it as the Australian equivalent of the BBC). Rutledge was engaged and curious, so the interview was really just a ranging conversation. They’ve now edited that interview, along with snippets from my New College…
The Colossian Forum is launching a new blog that should get some more energy in the coming months thanks to their recruitment of Matt Dodrill as a Junior Fellow. Truth in advertising: Matt is one of my former students, just graduated from Calvin College, and is now headed to Duke Divinity School. One of the…