In research for a book project on spiritual maturity, I fear I am discovering that “spiritual maturity” as a term no longer has any currency in Christian talk. I spent some time in a bookstore yesterday, talking with the manager
In research for a book project on spiritual maturity, I fear I am discovering that “spiritual maturity” as a term no longer has any currency in Christian talk. I spent some time in a bookstore yesterday, talking with the manager
I have been seriously pondering John Wesley’s doctrine of Christian perfection for several years. Have we his heirs advanced or retreated in our understanding of Methodism’s “grand depositum” as he put it? I don’t know. We certainly don’t like the
For some time I’ve noticed a perplexing quality of college student word use. Here are a couple of examples: “I have to miss class tomorrow and I was wondering if I could get the information that you’re going to cover.”
Working on a college campus puts one in the position of hearing lots of talk about diversity: racial diversity, national and ethnic diversity, cultural diversity, religious diversity, gender diversity. These are among the standard referents for folk in higher education.
I just finished a book by an author not so enamored with the effects of technology on the “net generation.” Entitled, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, (Penguin, 2008), it mounts massive