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Recovering Inquisitiveness
With the receipt of a Templeton Foundation grant in 2009, Regent College embarked on a Pastoral Science program to make sophisticated scientific knowledge accessible to non-scientists like pastors and laypeople, believing that scientific understanding can actually foster Christian growth in that it makes us human persons "fully alive." The program now enters a new phase as its resources become incorporated into Regent’s Marketplace Institute. Read…
A Duty to Care, a Duty to Critique
As a biblical studies professor, I am quite often asked—by students, church-members, and sometimes even the media—for my opinion on how biblical teaching relates to this or that current social or political “hot-button” issue. Here’s a good example: “Should a Christian resident of British Columbia be for or against the significant expansion in the oil and gas industries currently proposed for this province?” Read…
Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2012
Faithfully Present in a Fractured World
How are Christians to think and act in a world reeling from financial crisis and fraught with religiously polarized electorates? How should Christians respond to the emergence of a long-dormant xenophobia in Europe, or an Arab Spring in the Middle East ushering in a potentially harsh winter of oppression for Christian minorities? These questions were debated at the conference Faith and Politics in a Fractured World on October 5 and 6, 2012. Read…