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Theology as the Diaconate of Truth
A few years ago, much to my shame, I got caught up in a Twitter war over the relationship between Theology and the other academic disciplines. I was trying to argue (in 140 characters at a time) that...
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JH Newman’s vision for the university
This morning the Irish Times published an article on John Henry Cardinal Newman’s vision for education. While acknowledging that Newman’s ideas are dated (and haven’t really caught on), the article...
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Beauty Will Save the Soul: Part One
Over the course of the next few days, we will be posting parts of Matthew Vest’s essay Beauty Will Save the Soul. Keep posted for each part. * [Socrates:] I am amused, I said, at your fear of the...
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Bad Books Promiscuously Read: A Reflection on Assigning Objectionable Texts...
hen we set rules about what can and cannot be read, we may indeed be shielding students from falsehood and sin, but are we not also limiting the ways that they can learn to distinguish what is true and...
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Truth, Beauty: Why I Teach Beautiful Poetry
When we look at the world through the eyes of measurements and data, we think about how we can use the thing we are measuring. But when we look at the world through eyes that see its beauty, we lay...
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Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? (Part 1)
Science fiction has a deep and abiding interest in religious matters. But why this interest? And what makes science fiction qualified to address it in a way that will profit our students?
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Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series on an interdisciplinary course I taught with a colleague this semester: Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Science Fiction through the Lens of...
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Is Belief Bad? An Open Letter to First-Year Composition Students
Our culture says that only thing we can know to be absolutely true is factual data. Our culture says that belief and opinion are largely valueless, better kept to ourselves than asserted as truth. Yet...
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The Long Way to Learning: A Story
The truth is, becoming a better writer is not something that happens overnight. We expect it to, deluded by a society which offers 10-week fitness plans and pizza on delivery into thinking that the...
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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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