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Nov 11, 2011 Uncategorized

Christ and the Cubicle: A Meditation on Place

Every place has meaning—and some places mean more than others.

Nov 9, 2011 Uncategorized

Remembering Arthur Holmes

I am indebted to Art Holmes not only for my calling to be philosopher, but also for some of the themes that are foundational to my own teaching and writing.

Nov 7, 2011 Uncategorized

God-honouring Public Service in an Ungodly Government

Our careers and our human institutions are made of clay, not lasting gold and silver. Yet they are means through which we experience the satisfaction of serving God and contributing to the wellbeing of others, in this place of exile.

Nov 4, 2011 Uncategorized

Isaiah’s Vision for Human Security

Next in our series on the OT and public life . . . Isaiah interpreted world politics through his theology of international relations, voicing a radical form of wellbeing not brought about by the tools of statecraft.

Oct 31, 2011 Uncategorized

School choice and certain vulnerability

Are Christian schools and public schools equally worthy? Why I teach in one but enrolled my children in the other.

Oct 26, 2011 Uncategorized

Moused-eared worldview

There is something more to Disney World. Alongside the modern notion of disenchantment is a powerful human need to be enchanted, to fill the vacuum left by old convictions.

Oct 21, 2011 Uncategorized

Life-Long Learners 10.0

Tenth in an expert series on must-read books.

Oct 19, 2011 Uncategorized

Dream Small

You don’t need me to tell you to dream big. But I do hope you’ll hear me when I encourage you to also dream small. Because that might be what really matters.

Oct 17, 2011 Uncategorized

Mapping Boundaries: The state, commerce, and trade

Dooyeweerd proposed a third way between radical liberal individualism and thoroughgoing statism that has principled implications for how we understand the relationships between state, commerce and trade, society, and the individual.

Oct 14, 2011 Uncategorized

Caveat Lector

This is not a book for those who already feel burdened by their long list of books to read.

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