I remember a brilliant former student of mine distinguishing herself in a master's-level seminar with a charming, vigorous, and...

Three more American institutions of Christian higher education are in big trouble. The focus, understandably, is on their presidents...

I delivered this address more than a decade ago to a conference in Toronto of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, the...

It’s too good not to be true. It’s easy to feel that way when you come across a news article, Facebook post, speech, or seminar that...

No political issue in Canadian history has been more important, contentious, and complex than schooling, and particularly the question of...

It’s that time of year again. Students are receiving acceptance/denial letters, making last-minute visits to campuses, weighing up...

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) laws are being passed in various countries and jurisdictions, and entire school curricula...

I promised to represent people who responded to a previous post about seminary education, and I’m glad to do so. As one might have...

Teaching as I am, once again, at the undergraduate level, and encouraging bright students to go on to graduate work, I have encountered...

There is much to fear and loathe in the latest example of militant and violent campus intolerance. At Middlebury College in Vermont,...

[This column was originally posted on “Context with Lorna Dueck” six months ago. Alas, the issues remain live all over the continent.]...

With the National Football League season just underway, pennant races on in MLB, university and high school teams soon moving from...

The following is the penultimate draft of an essay recently published in the Canadian journal Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses....

As we approach the start of a new academic year, I’ve returned to the Maritimes after a summer at home in North Vancouver to take up my...

Lisa Ruddick, an associate professor of English language and literature at the University of Chicago, has written a poignant, powerful...

This article, touted by a good friend of mine, but written by someone not known to me, is a prime example of why I stopped subscribing...

A friend writes: I’m a full time pastor, but teach a couple of courses at small Christian colleges/seminaries. How do I begin to think...

Here’s some bad news that no one finishing a Ph.D. in religious studies will find as all that surprising: the job market isn’t improving....

The Supreme Court of Canada has now decided, albeit in an almost even split vote, the case of Loyola High School, a private Jesuit school...

Law Society Approves New Religious Law School by Irshad Chan-McCoy, Diversity Editor (TORONTO) (OF COURSE) To the surprise of many...