by Travis Pickell, Brian Doak | Jan 30, 2023 | 2023, Academics, Winter
Following the wide public release of the GPT-3 language generator, the internet has been awash in panic and awe—but mostly panic. Headlines like “The College Essay is Dead” (Atlantic) and “Will Chat GPT rot our brains?” (RNS) tell the story of our academic anxiety in...
by Michael R. Young | Jan 28, 2023 | 2023, Academics, Spiritual Life, Winter
Shar As Christian educators, our goal or telos is nothing less than the grandiose aim to help our students be formed into the likeness of Christ. This brief paper seeks to provide a direction and a few suggestions as to how moral education and the formation of...
by David Talcott | Oct 9, 2022 | 2022, Academics, Fall, Spiritual Life, The Pretentious Circus
For some time now, I have been writing at the TruthXChange about the post-Christian ideologies that have been making inroads into Christian colleges. The pagan worldview that reasserted itself in America in the late twentieth century has now incorporated new ideas...
by Daniel O. Aleshire | Oct 9, 2022 | 2022, Academics, Fall, Fall
Amid the Challenges, Daniel O. Aleshire Sees Opportunities for Renewal The practice of theology involves telling stories, yet theological educators live in a world increasingly suspicious of metanarratives and often receive their training in the grand particularities...
by Edie Glaser | Jul 5, 2022 | 2022, Academics, Spiritual Life, Summer
Harvard Divinity School has a Psychedelic Chaplaincy. John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research is recruiting faith leaders for its current research on the effects of psylocibin (“magic mushrooms”). Is Harvard Divinity School and John...
by Edie Glaser | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, Academics, The Case, Winter
A recent Barna research report “Millennials in America: New Insights into the Generation of Growing Influence” reveals that only 4% of Millennials surveyed (those born 1984–2002) have a biblical worldview. Among 18–24 year olds, that is cut in half to...