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Education for What?
James K.A. Smith over at Comment, has an interesting—and curmudgeonly—essay praising newspapers and asking what the purpose of education is. Read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt: It’s easy to...
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Alan Jacobs on Trigger Warnings
Earlier this summer, I started a post about trigger warnings. As I combed the internet doing research, I stumbled across this gem by Alan Jacobs. In this post, Jacobs talks about guiding students...
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The Dubiousness of Leadership
I’ve been thinking about leadership lately. I’ve been writing lots of letters of recommendation, all of which have asked me to evaluate a student’s “potential for leadership.” I’ve also been working in...
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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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Symposium on Paul Griffith’s “Intellectual Appetite”
What’s the opposite of a “hot-take”? A “slow-take”? Whatever you call it, we here at Christ & University are all about it, and that is why we are holding a symposium on Paul Griffiths’ 2009 book,...
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More on the Dubiousness on Leadership
A few months ago, I wrote a post on the dubiousness of leadership. In it, I talked about the ambiguity of leadership as one of the university’s core values. I suggested that leadership should be...
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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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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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At the Intersection: Thinking and Teaching at the Intersection of Theology...
This is the first entry of an ongoing series called “At the Intersection” that profiles the work of academics thinking and teaching at the intersection of two or more academic disciplines. We here at...
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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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