All posts by Dan Olson

Dan Olson is Managing Director at Anselm House, and leads the Spreading Hope Network, a movement of urban Christian schools. He studied communications and English literature (B.A) at Wheaton College (IL), and completed an M.A. in Christian studies at Regent College.

An Education for Lincoln’s Heaven

In a 2013 article on ‘Christian Schooling and Racial Realities,’ Hunter Baker concluded that while “the racial unification of the American church might best begin in the Christian schoolhouse” he lamented that it is a “mission … awaiting a champion...

/ July 27, 2022

A Univers(ity) Without a Story

Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah -Psalm 84:4 Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a novel open to myriad interpretations. One reading of the story is as a parable helping us rediscover the integrative power of the...

/ January 10, 2022