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I’ve expanded my first ruminations on the NCAA’s sanctions against Penn State’s football program in an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press, now available online.

I was struck by the goal of the NCAA sanctions, which was described several times (in the recent press conference) as “cultural change” within the football program at Penn State.  I think that goal is exactly right (if it’s sincere) and necessary.  But this raises the question: how do you change the “culture” of an institution?…

Over at “The Church and Postmodern Culture,” our fearless coordinator, Chad Lakies, has organized an extended online engagement with my latest book, the second edition of The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic (Baker Academic, 2012).  Over the next few weeks, there will be contributions from Mark Bowald (Redeemer University College), Neal DeRoo…

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.