Christian Scholar's Review

4 days 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.

5 days 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.

1 week ago | christianscholars.com | Perry L. Glanzer |Jessica Martin

I remember teaching a weekend course on American Christian history in the late 1990s. Since it was a weekend course for working adults, I used several videos in those late Saturday afternoon hours when eyes glazed and heads nodded. I found some great videos about the history of American Catholicism and African American Christianity, but the only video series I could find about the history of evangelicals was Randall Balmer’s series on the Religious Right, which he helped produce for PBS.

2 weeks ago | christianscholars.com | Katie Kresser |Jessica Martin

“In the one Christ, we are one.”                                         -motto of Pope Leo XIVThe Catholic Church has recently elected a new pope, not quite three weeks after the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday. Meanwhile, I have been thinking about Christian education in the city of Seattle, where I teach at a Protestant university and my children attend Catholic school.

2 weeks ago | christianscholars.com | Jessica Martin

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, Second Edition Published by Oxford University Press in 192pp / $19.75 / 978-0197751114 When George Marsden published The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship in 1997, I was a couple years away from completing my PhD in English. I was a young Christian studying at a state university in exactly the kind of academic environment hostile to religious faith that Marsden addresses in his book.