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The Wholehearted, Daring, Balancing Act of Christian Scholarship
The American Scholar On August 31, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson stepped into the pulpit of First Parish Meetinghouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to deliver what would become one of the defining lectures of his life and legacy, “The American Scholar.” Harvard University, having celebrated its bicentennial anniversary not even a year before, was a bastion of tradition—an old school in a young nation—and its annual Phi Beta Kappa address was a fixture of its academic calendar.
The Advent art of waiting
By , Op-ed contributor Advent is always a season of waiting. It reminds Christians of the long-anticipated first coming of a savior who shared in our sufferings, and it teaches us to wait for his second coming to judge the earth. Indeed, waiting is arguably the greatest theme of Advent literature and liturgy.
Should Liberal Arts Education Teach Us How to Die?
Noah Toly hosts a discussion with Dr. Lydia Dugdale, author of The Lost Art of Dying, and Dr. Todd Billings, author of The End of the Christian Life, about ancient and Christian wisdom on death and dying, and how a liberal arts education might teach us about both.
Vocation in a Time of Precedented Uncertainty
“Coronavirus could force the world into an unprecedented depression.” “Air pollution falls by unprecedented levels in major global cities during coronavirus lockdowns.” “Unprecedented nationwide blood studies seek to track U.S. coronavirus spread.” “Scientists learning about coronavirus at unprecedented speed.” “Coronavirus has sparked an unprecedented level of philanthropy.” “Industry faces unprecedented uncertainty due to coronavirus pandemic.” “Coronavirus is totally unprecedented.”...
You Are What You Read
Like many Christians, I tell multiple versions of my testimony. One focuses on being brought up by evangelical Christian parents and not remembering any precise moment of conversion. That’s not to say there weren’t decisive moments of repentance and faith, but they always seemed like fresh expressions of existing commitments and sensibilities, new expressions of an old faith.
Who's Reprogramming Your City?
How we can keep smart cities from becoming settlements for sophisticated savages? Appears in Summer 2016 A LEXICON OF TECHNOLOGICAL ETHICS At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, United States government officials, military brass, and scientific researchers detonated the first nuclear weapon. After six years of secret experimentation known as "the Manhattan Project," a team led by J.
Three challenging readings for this Independence Day
Note Douglass’ use of scripture to illuminate a likeness between the United States and Babylon, between enslaved Africans and Old Testament exiles… To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct.
The U.S. Border and Nazi Germany: The limits and power of analogies; observations and questions
For the past several years, I’ve had the opportunity to visit Berlin almost annually as I’ve taught at the Free University of Berlin. Those who have had a chance to visit the city know that it is compact and accessible, so a visitor can see quite a bit during a short stay, but it is also nearly impossible to exhaust the city’s cultural riches and historical lessons.
Replacing absences and extensions with sick days and personal days
There’s one week left before the end of the semester. That makes it crunch-time for students. (Then it’s crunch-time for faculty who have to grade. Some of my students calculated that I’d have over 600 pages of work to grade just from one class.) With crunch-time comes the inevitable barrage of requests for excused absences and extensions on projects, papers, and exams. Reasons range from illness to sudden personal or family crises to other college obligations.
The Media and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era
Election 2016 was a watershed moment for American politics as well as for its journalists. A host of new digital media outlets and bloggers, some set up just to chase clicks and harnessing the vast power of social media, caught the public’s attention to an unprecedented degree. But the growing influence of these sources has sparked intense debate about the veracity of news in the digital age.
These global cities are as powerful as countries — Quartz
Cities are shaping the future of global affairs. Over the next seven days, tens of thousands of people from around the world will convene in Quito for Habitat III. Heads of state, mayors, corporate leaders, and civil society representatives will join this United Nations conference to explore ways in which cities shape the planet. Through mass urbanization and growing economic power, cities are poised to shake up the future world order.
Cities Play Key Role in Climate Action
“Nations talk; cities act.” That rallying cry from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been used by many to extol the century of cities, the idea that cities — especially a select number of influential, or global, cities — will take their place alongside nation-states as key actors shaping our world. But is this just more talk?
What I’m Reading: ‘Billion-Dollar Ball’
Michael Hudson Noah J. Toly I have more than a passing interest in football, which I played at the liberal-arts college where I now teach. Like many fans, I find myself increasingly ambivalent about major college football as challenges to the NCAA’s amateurism rules highlight the sport’s increasing autonomy from the educational enterprise. To learn more, I read Gilbert M. Gaul’s Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football.
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