From the lips of many a professor at many a Christian college the words “integration of faith and learning” sound as natural as “liberal arts” or “critical thinking.” Yet, as Chris Gehrz and a number of scholars argue in The Pietist Vision of Christian Education, that phrase, inflected as it is by twentieth-century Calvinism, stands…
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One-Link Pony
Chris Gehrz talks some sense about the Joe Paterno controversy. The ongoing debate over what constitutes good composition instruction Brian McLaren throws churches under the bus (again) Questioning the category of “political theology” Liberal arts make one wealthy? Really?
Yesterday Is Gone Like the Wind
When Chris Gehrz (of CWC: The Radio Show semi-fame) and I first started emailing back and forth a few years ago, we talked a lot about our shared tastes in music, especially as they involved two bands: Minneapolis heroes The Jayhawks and indie rock mainstays Wilco. With both bands releasing highly anticipated albums this year,…
To Every Link There Is a Time and a Season
Is the contemporary American novel written in vernacular English? A Londoner visits Atlanta (and has several nice things to say about it!) What’s Harold Bloom’s favorite book of the Bible? Our buddy Chris Gehrz tries to figure out what “Christian fundamentalist” means in the mass media. What’s Catch-22 really about? (Michial sez: If you didn’t…