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1 week ago | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Brad East |Ted Gioia |Josh Brake
For those of you who prefer to read off paper rather than the screen, we have converted the post into an easily printable pdf file. If you appreciate this, please consider supporting our work by upgrading to a paid subscription. Thank you:)Learning, Fast and Slow: Why AI will not revolutionize education865KB ∙ PDF fileThe motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and…in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
mereorthodoxy.com | Brad East
On this day ten years ago Islamist terrorists entered the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and massacred its staff. The killers were two brothers who claimed allegiance to al-Qaeda. Their stated reason for the slaughter was the offense they took at the satirical magazine’s publication of images of the prophet Muhammad. They murdered twelve innocents and injured eleven. Two days later, after a brief manhunt, the killers were themselves killed by French authorities.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Brad East
The 12 days of Christmas tell of martyrdom, pain, and sacrifice as much as life, joy, and salvation. This is no accident. As the song says, there isn't only one day of Christmas. There are 12. Christmastide lasts from December 25 through January 5, from the day we mark Christ's birth until the eve of Epiphany, when we remember the visit of the Magi.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Brad East
The immorality of killing the old and ill has never been in question for Christians. Nor is our duty to care for those the world devalues. Advent is a time for the church to prepare to celebrate the gift of new life: Jesus, God made flesh, born of a virgin, laid in a manger. In a gruesome twist of timing, however, this Advent season has begun with euthanasia once more in the news.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thenewatlantis.com | Christine Rosen |John Fechtel |Brad East |Matthew B. Crawford
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version If the worry during the Enlightenment, as mathematician Isaac Milner wrote in 1794, was that ‘the great and high’ have ‘forgotten that they have souls,’ then today the worry is that many of us have forgotten that we have bodies.” So writes Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior editor of this journal, in her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | Brad East |Chris Reese
Dear future saint, You have written before about “being” or “becoming” a “good person.” It surely seems odd to you, then, that I have waited so long to describe the virtues of Christian living. The first thing to say is that I haven’t waited this whole time. I’ve been describing the Christian life all along. But you’re right that I haven’t turned my gaze to the topic itself just yet. The second thing to say is why this is the right order.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Brad East
The popular influencer's latest book, "We Who Wrestle with God," is ambitious, insightful, and slippery on theological truth. About a decade ago, a friend of mine mentioned a series of videos about the Bible he'd discovered online. It was by an obscure Canadian academic whom neither of us knew.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Brad East
This weekend, Martin Scorsese's docudrama series The Saints will premiere on the streaming service Fox Nation. Four episodes will air leading up to Christmas, then the final four before Easter. I've watched two of the episodes-on Joan of Arc and Maximilian Kolbe-in advance. Other featured saints will include John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, and Francis of Assisi. The Saints is not a scholarly or skeptical affair.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bradeast.org | Brad East
Literacy is not my area of expertise, whether ancient, medieval, modern, or contemporary. But I find myself talking about it a lot, so I thought I’d put down some markers here for the best resources on the topic, at least regarding mass illiteracy in those societies where Christianity took root early on. Some relevant books include:Robert A. Kaster, Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 1988)William V.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
theraisedhand.substack.com | Brad East
Brad East is an associate professor of theology at Abilene Christian University. He is the author of many books including the recently released The Church: A Guide to the People of God(2024). He also writes regularly on his personal blog. This is the second monthly essay in our series addressing the question: “What does every university and college student need to learn?” I am tempted to begin by saying that the first thing every university and college student needs to learn is how to read.
