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Clinton, Bill "The Case for Optimism: From Technology to Equality, Five Ways the World is Getting Better All the Time" TIME Magazine, pg. 38-44 (Oct 1, 2012) In the print version on the last page of Bill Clinton’s recent TIME Magazine cover story, Oliver Munday, who...

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Limited Access

Fish, Stanley "Being Neutral Is Oh So Hard to Do" The New York Times (July 19, 2010) Recently, the Tufts Christian Fellowship, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s chapter at the Boston area university, was “de-recognized” by the student judiciary committee of the...

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Reproductive Justice?

Nicoll, Regis "The Tyranny of ‘Reproductive Justice'" BreakPoint (November 12, 2012) Abortion is one of the few social topics about which there is somewhat widespread agreement among Evangelical Christians. While distinctions remain about the validity of abortions in...

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Something to Rejoice About

Graham, Ruth "New England’s Quiet Christian Revival" The Week (January 8, 2105) Too often the news for Christians portrays no hopeful signs for our nation’s spiritual health. Of course, “bad news” attracts more readers, viewers and listeners than “good news” so that...

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Visual Learning

Noer, Michael "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy is Reinventing Education" Forbes (November 2, 2012) Education in America today, particularly so-called “Higher Education”, is in turmoil as it has not been perhaps in our nation’s history....

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Me, Myself and I

Bruni, Frank "For Each Age, Its Agonies" The New York Times (January 7, 2013) “What age would you like to be right now?” The question came to me out of the blue, and, considering the source, made me want to answer it with as much caution as I could. I wanted to be...

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Knowing and Doing

Smith, James K.A. "You Can’t Think Your Way to God" Christianity Today (May 24, 2013) The C.S. Lewis Institute of Washington, DC used to provide a program each summer at beautiful Osprey Point called “Knowing and Doing.” The program was founded on the fact that a full...

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Fictional Faith

Elie, Paul "Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?" The New York Times (December 19, 2012) One of the most subtle romantic comedies of this year was the Nicole Holofcenter written and directed Enough Said, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the late James Gandolfini. The...

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What is Evangelicalism?

McDermott, Gerald R. "The Emerging Divide in Evangelical Theology" Virtue Online Gerry McDermott, Jordan-Trexler professor of religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, has been lecturing and writing on Christianity for many years at both the popular and...

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Professors Are People, Too

Mathewes, Charles "Job, Career, Vocation, Life" Inside Higher Ed (December 13, 2013) Charles Mathewes, Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, has gone outside his considerably wide-ranging fields of interest (his university...