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Apr 11, 2012 Uncategorized

A Different Way

SIX QUESTIONS . . . In a sense, all my research and writing has aimed to understand how some societies came to see an irreconcilable conflict between social justice and the rights of conscience, a conflict played out especially in popular education.

Apr 10, 2012 Uncategorized

On Becoming a Teachable Spirit

Burning questions on how God reaches out to teenagers, how their grains of faith can be sustained, and in what ways the urban church can share the gospel with city kids.

Apr 5, 2012 Uncategorized

Lent with Leonard

Leonard Cohen develops Old Ideas for surviving the Lenten desert: a “manual for living with defeat.”

Apr 4, 2012 Uncategorized

Surprising Evidences of Unity

Knowing where we overlap, and where we differ, allows all of us to be more effective witnesses in the public square.

Apr 2, 2012 Uncategorized

False Faces and Quieting Passions

SIX QUESTIONS . . . Today, unfortunately, Christianity has two false faces: the first is a strong but angry and uncaring face, while the second is a sweet, saccharine, permissive face. Neither one is Christian.

Mar 30, 2012 Uncategorized

Life-Long Learners 15.0

Fifteenth in an expert series on must-read books.

Mar 28, 2012 Uncategorized

The Grand Rapids Intellectuals

The Reformed Journal bridged the ethno-religious subculture of Dutch-Calvinist America and the wider academy, and it served as an incubator for several household names in Christian scholarship.