Featured Essay / Culture
The video for "The Cost of Freedom" event is now available. Cornel West and Robert George joined Rick Warren at Biola University for a discussion about disagreement, common ground, and justice. West and George are good friends, yet disagree on important issues. There is a lively discussion about halfway through as…
Essay / Misc.
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. Today I got to do a concluding class on Milton’s Paradise Lost. While trying to understand the work, we began to discuss Milton’s view of men and women. Milton says that women are inferior to men in intellect and morals. It
Essay / Education
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. I have been thinking about Chrystostom’s Sermons on the Gospel of John and on Augustine’s “On Christian Teaching.” With much groaning, I have come to repudiate liberal arts education.Augustine famously described the “liberal arts education” as using the “spoils of Egypt”
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. I am with a serious group of people, who like all the Church fathers, think there was a large flood in the days of Noah. They are arguing about its size, but the agreement is broad. If they are right, then
Essay / Misc.
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. What if one viewed the world through a religious framework? Not because one had to out of fear (you never know when to expect the Spanish Inquisition), but because it is interesting and after much experience of the world seems true?