We Have Met the Beast, and He is Us
Responds to Jack Crabtree's paper, "How to Follow Jesus When You Cannot Kill the Beast" (Summer Institute 2013), by examining how all human beings are hostile to God. (PDF)
How to Follow Jesus When You Cannot Kill the Beast
Explores what it will look like to exist as a follower of Jesus in the emerging hostile society and how believers can prepare for such a future. (PDF)
A Dialog on Education: A Socratic Approach to Choosing the Right College
Discusses the nature of education by using a fictional conversation between friends.
Dismissed
Responds to the growing cultural trend of dismissing Christians and their beliefs as irrational and bigoted.
The Future of Higher Education
Describes the upheaval in higher education and speculates on its future.
Truth Detectors
Proposes that people are born truth-detectors and that they are very good at it.
Taking Gutenberg into the Future (2012 Student Graduation Talks)
Addresses the question of how Gutenberg graduates take Gutenberg into their futures lives.
Computer Passion and a Gutenberg Education
Reflects on the education received at Gutenberg College and the impact on the author’s life.
Gutenberg College and the Important Things in Life
Describes the author’s own experience to support the position that studying the liberal arts helps one to understand oneself.
In That Day, They Will Fast
Examines the Christian response to feeling disconnected from God.
When the Plot Is Lost: How Shakespeare, Descartes, and the Author of Kings Navigated Cultural Crises
Argues that narrative—story-telling—is necessary to give meaning to an information-glutted age.
The Way of Balaam
(2 Peter 2-3) Explores the story of Balaam to explain Peter’s teaching on false teachers.
God Give Me Courage to Be a Nut
Compares the “herd” mentality with that of an authentic follower of Jesus.
Why Do We Listen to Whom We Listen?
Challenges the way most modern Americans judge the value and worth of a person.
Is Jesus' Resurrection a Historical Fact?
Discusses the biblical account of Jesus’ resurrection in light of archeology and the nature of "proof."
Adam Smith was no Laissez-Faire Ideologue!
Challenges the common belief that Adam Smith, the pioneer of political economy, was a free-market ideologue.
Does the Sermon on the Mount Say Anything New?
Compares Jesus’ teaching with rabbinic teaching of the same time period.
Gerard and God's Grandeur
Looks at the life and work of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Rehabbing Rhetoric
Argues for the restoration of classic rhetoric to revitalize the fruitfulness of public debate.
The Teaching of the Kingdom Parables
(Matthew 13) Explores the picture of the coming Kingdom of God that emerges in Jesus' "Kingdom parables."