This looks really interesting. Rumor has it Nancy Pearcey, author of the excellent book Total Truth, will be in it. … [Read more...] about The Family Project – A Forthcoming Documentary
Culture
Interview with Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon College
Todd Ream interviews Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, for Books and Culture. An excerpt: Gordon College is one of only a handful of evangelical Christian colleges that has not invested in online and/or degree completion forms of education for undergraduates. What challenges do those decisions pose for Gordon? I am persuaded—and I think almost all my colleagues are as well—that some dimension of online pedagogy is going to be part and parcel of the undergraduate experience for every institution over the next five to ten years. We've seen this … [Read more...] about Interview with Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon College
Victor Davis Hanson on the Liberal Arts
Great article by Victor Davis Hanson on how "the therapeutic Left and the utilitarian Right both do disservice to the humanities." Excerpt: ...the therapeutic academic Left proved incapable of defending the traditional liberal arts. With three decades of defining the study of literature and history as a melodrama of race, class, and gender oppression, it managed to turn off college students and the general reading public. And, cheek by jowl, the utilitarian Right succeeded in reclassifying business and finance not just as undergraduate majors, but also as core elements in general-education … [Read more...] about Victor Davis Hanson on the Liberal Arts
President of ASU on Whether College is Worth It
A good interview with Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, America's largest public university. He makes two really good points: 1. Most college rankings are based on exclusivity (admissions rates), but what's importance is achievement upon graduation. 2. Graduation rates vary by family income (sadly). "Having a more diverse class -- more kids working while in college, more first-generation college students -- affects graduation rates." (It seems we need to do more to help talented kids from lower income families persevere to graduation.) … [Read more...] about President of ASU on Whether College is Worth It
Why are millennials leaving the church?
Rachel Held Evans sounded off (again) over the weekend on CNN's religion site. But I think Rod Dreher and Anthony Bradley are more on point. Evans' critiques don't really explain what's happening. For example, Dreher writes: Crucially, the data cited in American Grace show that the young began to fall away from the church in the early 1990s; around the time that homosexuality, including same-sex marriage, began to be a topic of mainstream discussion. Understand, it's not that Evangelicals are becoming more liberal, necessarily (though some are); it's that young people who were raised … [Read more...] about Why are millennials leaving the church?
Ligon Duncan and Tim Keller: A More Relevant PCA?
A great interaction between PCA denomination leaders Ligon Duncan and Tim Keller on the last day of the 41st General Assembly. An excerpt: “We both believe that we are in a new cultural moment,” said Duncan. “We need to know where we are, how we’ve gotten here, and how we can forge a biblical, faithful consensus on how we’re going to address that together.” Keller picked up the conversation by painting a bleak picture of where America is as a culture: “This is an unprecedented time in human history. There have always been relativists. There have always been doubters of God. There have … [Read more...] about Ligon Duncan and Tim Keller: A More Relevant PCA?