Jessica Martin

1 week ago | christianscholars.com | Kevin Brown |Jessica Martin

Not all value can be measured in dollars. Consider a cautionary tale shared by Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel. While he was studying as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar in the 1970s, one of the all-women’s colleges, St. Anne’s, became tangled in a debate over evolving sexual mores. Resident halls for men and women had traditionally been separated, but pressure grew to relax rules and allow men to stay overnight at St. Anne’s.

1 week ago | christianscholars.com | Derek C. Schuurman |Jessica Martin

This summer I will take on the responsibility of chair of the Department of Computer Science at Calvin University. This part-time administrative role comes with many responsibilities: guiding the hiring and reappointment of faculty, scheduling classes, ensuring academic quality, managing budgets, and generally keeping the “trains running on time” in the department.

2 weeks ago | christianscholars.com | Todd Steen |Jessica Martin

A couple of years ago, my son-in-law showed me ChatGPT on his phone. I had heard of it before, but didn’t know what it could do. It seemed pretty cool, and he was able to have it answer some questions and then even use it to write a short sermon that was somewhat suitable for a Christian in the Reformed tradition. It was almost like a magic trick, one where you wondered how that was actually even possible. We moved on to Christmas dinner, and I didn’t think much about it for a while.

3 weeks ago | christianscholars.com | Perry L. Glanzer |Jessica Martin

In the same way you can discover something important about a university by how it names its department teaching about Christianity (e.g., Religion, Theology, Bible, Christian Studies), you can learn something about a university by how it labels the moral ideals it sets forth for students. You can also ascertain a great deal about them by the language and reasoning they use to justify how they think students should behave.

3 weeks ago | christianscholars.com | Benjamin McFarland |Jessica Martin

The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust Published by Little, Brown and Company in 288pp / $27.99 / 978-0316576307 If you’re a public health person, and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is: something that will save a life. Doesn’t matter what else happens. So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life.