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Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

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What is to be done… in Theology?

Two millennia of Christian theology does not mean there is no work left to be done. Starting out from the beginning—the doctrine of creation—Vincent Bacote identifies priorities for theology in the early years of the 21st century.

Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

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What is to be done… about schooling?

Aaron Belz thinks the contemporary high school classroom is a bastion of the bourgeois, that students who excel in this environment are gifted at waiting in line at the drinking fountain, and that the Socratic method is a form of hectoring. He offers an alternative way of doing . . . schooling.

Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

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The Calgary School and the Future of Canada

The Calgary School and its advocates are often accused of wanting to Americanize Canada. Heavily influential in the Conservative Party of Canada and in this country’s broader public debate, the School is a collection of political theorists, pundits and public intellectuals, including Rainer Knopff, F.L. “Ted” Morton, David Bercuson, Barry Cooper and Thomas Flanagan. What shall we make of the Calgary School?

Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

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What is to be done… in the public square?

Domesticated religion isn’t for Ray Pennings. Not for him, Christian faith that “knows its place” . . . as a private, highly individualized religion of the prayer closet and the cloistered chapel. Instead, Pennings calls Christians out of the cloister and the closet to pursue a strategy of cultural change as a public religion working together across disciplines, through institutions, over the span of generations.

What is to be done . . . toward a neocalvinist agenda?

Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

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What is to be done . . . toward a neocalvinist agenda?

Neocalvinist philosopher and theologian Al Wolters calls present and future generations of neocalvinists to look back to neocalvinism’s intellectual roots and forebears, to look forward to alternative ways of expressing neocalvinist commitments to our world. Neocalvinism is a considered, Christian response to the broad, controlling philosophy of our times—modernism—and an attempt to account for the myriad ways in which our society develops into various categories of activity.

What is to be done… in politics?

Dec 1, 2005 What is to be done?

What is to be done… in politics?

To say, “That’s just politics,” misses the point. There is a domain of the political, and politics can be a noble calling. Russ Kuykendall suggests an approach that accounts for the political domain, and how politics can be ennobled.

Aug 1, 2005 The best of Comment

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Beyond Unions?

The real question, then, may not be the question of union decline and revival, but rather the question of how to adapt our structures and public policy to accommodate the emerging forms of worker organization.

Aug 1, 2005 The best of Comment

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Character and Productivity

What is the most important thing in life to you? When your life is over and you look back—what do you want to be known for? The answers to these questions are visible today in the productivity and profitability of your company. There is a connection between the values that you hold—your character—and the productivity or success of your company.

Aug 1, 2005 The best of Comment

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The Failure of the New York Intellectuals

The failure of the New York Intellectuals, finally—after a life in the American public as critics and theorists, pundits and intellectuals—was the failure to pass on a tradition. They became but a historical quirk when they failed to bequeath the tradition onto another generation and another age.