Thinking Christianly About Assessments
For the past seven years, I’ve been an academic administrator in two Christian universities. I’ve served as the dean of a school within one university, and I now serve as another university’s provost (chief academic officer). I manage a leadership team of about a dozen direct reports. I also teach courses in the field of […]
Revisiting Carl Henry’s “Uneasy Conscience for a New Generation”
Postwar Evangelicals at a Crossroads The year was 1947. Evangelicals were trying to figure out how to navigate faithfully the postwar world. They were still less than a generation removed from a string of defeats in the fundamentalist-modernist denominational controversies of the 1920s and 1930s. The Scopes Trial, while technically a victory for theological conservatives, […]
Why It Matters That the World is Watching
In recent years, I’ve attended denominational meetings where believers discussed—sometimes passionately—about how to engage the culture most faithfully. I‘ve often heard a common refrain that goes something like this: Christian A: “We need to be clear about XYZ issue because the world is watching.” Christian B: “What does it matter what the world […]