Review of "Christian Higher Education" edited by David Dockery and Christopher Morgan

Download or Stream this Episode Today, Coyle and Ed talk about the institution of tenure at colleges and universities–its role at colleges, universities and society at large; arguments for and…

The Vatican’s recent statement on the practice of theology (HT Fred Sanders) David Brooks on the gray tsunami A right-wing account of class struggle in contemporary America In which Pat…

Slavoj Žižek on some changes in capitalism that Karl Marx did not anticipate Some prognostications on the future of higher education in America: depressing or invigorating? College sports, Derrida, and Homer’s…

Roger Olsen revisits the Ivan Karamazov “Rebellion” question When parents send their kids to college, whose sports cars are they financing? Educators could learn a thing or two from those…

Another editorial on why colleges and universities are tanking (’cause we just can’t get enough of those) Rod Dreher on why even Catholics are Protestants now A tribute to Edward…

General Introduction – Facebook feedback – The podcast gains sentience – The return of CWC – Homebrewed Christianity A Practical Topic – Where do intellectuals fit into a local congregation?…

The art exhibit that marks… wait for it… the end of postmodernism (let’s see if this draws out the Emergent crowd…) James K.A. Smith on the problems with contemporary academic…

The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century Some…

Tripp Fuller issues a manifesto on seminary education. Did you hear the one about the Hegelian who went to Saint Louis? An encomium for Stanley Fish The science of self-control…

Stanley Fish notes the similarities in the right-wing and left-wing criticisms of the modern university. Patrick Deneen calls for public liberal arts education, not careerist college education, for all citizens.…