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The Culture of Undergraduate Drinking
C&U doesn’t often post essays on collegiate “social issues.” Our main MO has thus far been to address the metaphysics of the university and to reflect on pedagogy. But we have also written several...
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Rape and the Christian University (Part 1)
This has been a traumatic semester for a lot of people I know and care about. Several of my students have come to me this semester and confessed that they had recently been raped. If you are reading...
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Rape and the Christian University (Part 2)
Yesterday, I posted a few thoughts on the nature of rape. Today, I want to turn to the question of what we can do to stop this phenomenon of rape on our campuses. Just like my previous post, these are...
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Student Resilience and the Threat of Bad Grades
Yesterday, Megan Von Bergen published a helpful essay on learning. There was also an interesting article by Peter Gray over at Psychology Today on the lack of emotional resilience in the student...
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Gift, Studiousness, and Core Values
There are a number of things I appreciate about Paul Griffiths’ Intellectual Appetite, but chief among them is his treatment of the intellectual and spiritual dispositions that fit the Christian way of...
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Thoughts on Academic Community
Wendell Berry writes* that there is “a kind of knowledge, inestimably valuable and probably indispensable, that comes out of common culture and that cannot be taught as a part of the formal curriculum...
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On Being Protested by Westboro Baptist Church
Last week, a notorious hate-group called Westboro Baptist Church announced that it would be protesting my university for…reasons. They denounced the “terrorist Jesuits” running our school, and attacked...
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Am I Rubbish? On Academic Impostor Syndrome
A Guest Post by David Russell Mosley I am the worst theologian there is. When I find myself in a group of my “peers” I feel totally inadequate, as if I can be nothing more than a mere popularizer of...
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Educational Technology’s Inflated Promises
I recently came across a slender book that aims to redesign liberal education using digital technologies. Titled Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem, it...
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