higher education

After Whiteness is urgent reading for any institution that purports to care about God and race.

The advantages of a universal program

Creating space for a different kind of engagement

It’s not clear that college applicants will be the ones served by another number to measure them.

Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis

They were black, Latino, and white. They were whispering and laughing together.

Theological educators don't just teach a particular kind of content. We also model a process for engaging with sensitive issues.

Thank you, Professor David Barash. In his first-year biology class, Barash begins with something he calls “The Talk.” He understands that a “substantial minority” of students come in unprepared by their religious backgrounds for the complexity and strangeness of evolutionary biology. They fear that the study of biology might challenge their “beliefs.” So he takes it upon himself to clear up what vestiges of William Paley and William Jennings Bryan remain among students.

"Church of Pakistan college principal beaten," read the headline. I am that principal.

I have mixed feelings about this idea of Marshall Poe’s:

I think religion should be taught in college. I’m not talking about “religious studies,” that is, the study of the phenomenon of religion. I’m talking about having imams, priests, pastors, rabbis, and other clerics teach the practice of their faiths. In college classrooms. To college students. For credit.

In this deeply researched and illuminating monograph, Elizabeth Clark examines the development of early church history as an academic field in the U.S.