Update: Frank Beckwith suggests that Corey’s “generous orthodoxy” may be problematic for a few faculty members. His assessment is fairly strong, in fact: “This appointment seems to represent a clear departure for Biola from its West Coast fundamentalist/dispensationalist roots.” It’s hard to see how that is the case, though, given that Corey is ordained by [...]
Archive for April, 2007
April 30, 2007
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Fostering Conversations that Count: The Discussion Worldview
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Discussion LeadingIn order for educators to promote great discussions, it is crucial for them to understand the beliefs necessary for great discussions to occur. In other words, there are certain commitments that educators and participants need to have in place for important and meaningful discussions to occur. These presuppositions are like the foundation holding up the [...]
April 24, 2007
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Americans United for Life
By Matthew Lee Anderson in UncategorizedReaders in the Chicago area may be interested in this opportunity. If I were already out there, I’d be there: Americans United for Life presents their annual AUL Legal Institute June 18-21, 2007 in Chicago “I have learned more pro-life strategies from AUL in the past month than I ever learned from all my Congressional [...]
April 22, 2007
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City Life
By Tex in All Things Lovely, Life in generalI walked the city tonight. I walked the city tonight with eyes wide open and wept over what I saw. I went looking for life but saw death and pain and sin all around me. Pavement beneath my feet. Pavement for miles on end. Rock, concrete, brick, plaster and stone enclose and entomb. The heart [...]
April 20, 2007
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Fostering Conversations that Count: Questions vs. Answers
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Discussion LeadingIt is a theme that I have touched on in several posts now, so I thought I would put it into an installment of its own. Managing the interaction between questions and answers is a challenge for any institution, but particularly for Christian institutions. On the one hand, Christians have the creeds and Scripture, which [...]
April 19, 2007
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Fostering Conversations that Count: The Biblical Basis for Discussion
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Discussion LeadingBut is it biblical? Such an issue is of probably no interest to most educators or businessmen, but to those who work in Christian ministry (or Christian education in general) it is essential. I have interacted with some more conservative adherants to Christianity (including this exchange!) who have argued that “open-ended” discussions are against the [...]
April 18, 2007
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Cho’s Disturbing Saga (Updated).
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsUpdated: Removed a confusion from the last paragraph. Also, Hugh is furious at NBC, as are these folks. On the other side of the aisle, this bloke wants the tapes released to everyone. (End Update) The tragedy at Virginia Tech took a bizarre turn today that I certainly didn’t expect, and my hunch is [...]
April 17, 2007
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Google reading our Email?
By Matthew Lee Anderson in BloggingAlister Cameron, who is guest blogging at Problogger, mined Google’s Blogsearch patent application to determine how Blogsearch ranks posts. It is somewhat surprising to a novice like me that blogrolls and feed readers actually matter. But the real stunner came at the end: [0044] References to the blog document by other sources may be a [...]
April 17, 2007
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Fostering Conversations that Count: Only Discussion?
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Discussion LeadingSometimes when I advocate using discussion as a means of education, people hear me saying that I think they should only use discussion. I’m not. Discussion should be part of your overall educational strategy. An essential part, yes, but only a part. Here I want to address three other means of educating students and their [...]
April 17, 2007
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Human Exceptionalism Undermined? (Updated)
By Matthew Lee Anderson in ScienceWhile my brother and Wesley Smith discuss this brief analysis of the importance to human exceptionalism by Leon Kass at his place, this provocatively titled piece of news has started to make the rounds: Chimps are More Evolved than Humans. Of course, what they mean by “evolution” is itself interesting: The results, published today in [...]
April 17, 2007
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The Sacrificial Death of One
By Matthew Lee Anderson in News, UncategorizedUpdate: Check out this account from a student of Librescu’s. Librescu apparently had published more than any other professor in VT’s history. His academic page is here. From among the carnage of yesterday’s shootings comes this story: Israeli professor of Romanian origin Liviu Librescu numbers among those killed in the Virginia Tech University massacre on [...]
April 16, 2007
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The Virginia Tech Tragedy
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsThe deadliest campus attack in American history occurred this morning in Blacksburg, Virginia. At least 22 people were killed by a gunman, before he turned the gun on himself. The President of the school has described the tragedy as “monumental.” He’s right. On a morning where I have been reading about the instability of international [...]
April 16, 2007
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The Path of Least Resistance: the West’s Response to Iran
By Matthew Lee Anderson in PoliticsWant a brief understanding of the state of the relationship between Iran and the West? Victor Davis Hanson pens this analysis: And then I woke up, remembering that the West of old lives only in dreams. Yes, the new religion of the post-Westerner is neither the Enlightenment nor Christianity, but the gospel of the Path [...]