Today something wonderful happened. I stepped out of my office at work for a moment and returned to find this book on top of my file cabinet. No note. No envelope. It was just sitting there. Wow! Every Good Endeavor, which releases Nov. 13 but is available now for pre-order, deals with a topic I've written a few articles about: Making a connection between our work and God's work. In fact, it was Keller who led me to a Dorothy Sayers essay called Why Work? which I cited in Thriving at College. The book is divided into three parts: … [Read more...] about Tim Keller’s New Book: Every Good Endeavor
Archives for 2012
Dinesh D’Souza and King’s College
King's College has issued a statement (quoted in a Christianity Today article) in response to recent reports that Dinesh D'Souza, separated from his wife for the last two years, is now engaged to another woman: The Board of Trustees of The King’s College has, in recent days, learned that details of the personal life of our president, Dinesh D’Souza, including information about admitted difficulties in his marriage, would be published in a national magazine. While our board has been aware of some of these details, we were not aware of others and immediately met in special sessions as a board, … [Read more...] about Dinesh D’Souza and King’s College
What’s a Christian business owner supposed to do?
Mark Taylor, president of Tyndale House Publishers Inc. in Carol Stream, Ill., explains why Tyndale has joined the list of Christian organizations who have filed lawsuits against the HHS mandate. Why? As is now widely known, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ruled that health insurance plans must provide contraceptives free of charge to all plan beneficiaries. As a Protestant, I don’t have a moral objection to contraceptives per se. But HHS defines contraception to include abortifacients such as Plan B (the morning-after pill), Ella (the week-after pill), and intrauterine … [Read more...] about What’s a Christian business owner supposed to do?
Thoughts on Serving and Greatness
I wrote a guest post for Bob Bevington's blog, Red Like Blood (which is also the title of his most recent book). My post is called Back to School: Thoughts on Serving and Greatness. Here's the opening: Jesus washed His disciples’ feet to communicate a principle: Christian leaders are to be servants. They get under others to lift them up, not over others to get ego gratification. (See this sermon.) You call me Teacher and Lord…If I then, your Lord and Teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I … [Read more...] about Thoughts on Serving and Greatness
Student Default Rates Rise (Again)
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: More than one out of eight student-loan borrowers who entered repayment from October 1, 2008, to September 30, 2009, defaulted within three years, the U.S. Education Department announced on Friday as part of its first release of official data on cohort default rates for federal student loans measured over three years. The new figure on overall default rates, 13.4 percent, was released as the department switches from measuring the rates over three years instead of two. For-profit institutions had the highest average three-year default rates, at … [Read more...] about Student Default Rates Rise (Again)
The Brain is a Muscle
Doug Wilson: “We tend to think of our students’ minds as finite shoeboxes, and we then think we must take special care not to put anything in there if we do not want it to remain there for life. But the brain is more like a muscle. A student who learns one language, such as Latin, is not stuck with his shoebox three-quarters full, with no room for Spanish. Rather the student has a mind that has been stretched and exercised in such a way that subsequent learning is much easier, not much harder. “Now of course this kind of mental discipline could be acquired by requiring of the students … [Read more...] about The Brain is a Muscle