Let us begin with the research function of the university, and in my next post, I’ll turn to teaching. The Christian university...

I’ve just arrived in Liverpool after a bit of a journey (nonstop flight from Vancouver to London, then a few hours in Heathrow before...

It’s that time of the year again for students and professors: Crunch Time, Year End, the last, sheer drop of the scholastic roller...

Actually, I’m not suffering either, although I’m talking about it. I’m here during unseasonably warm weather (high 80s today) to give a...

Here is a lightly-edited example of the many e-mails I have received of this sort: A friend of mine showed me your blog entries on PhD...

Here is what writing a master’s thesis won’t get you: a gasp of admiration from a PhD admissions committee. It doesn’t matter how long a...

I’m finishing up a week speaking at Mount Hermon Conference Center, in the hills above Santa Cruz, California. And I’ve been impressed...

As an extension of the current thread about Ph.D.’s, vocations of teaching, and the like, I have posted a long-ish paper on “Engaging the...

(With thanks to friend and former colleague Prof. Bruce Hindmarsh of Regent College for much of what follows.) As you undertake the...

I’ve been given comp tix to see “Expelled” in a couple of days, just before it opens here in Canada. How can I not? Several of the Big...

In this last post, I’d like to reflect on how Richard Dawkins unwittingly and certainly unwillingly helps the Christian Church, as well...

Richard Dawkins has traveled the world, sowing his particular gospel of atheism, science, rational argument, and the courage to live in...

So someone at the University of British Columbia (UBC) decided it was a good idea to bring Richard Dawkins to campus to give a free...

It’s getting towards the end of the academic term throughout North America, and it’s time to confirm a thought that haunt the corners of...

The great province of Ontario, Canada’s richest and most populous, is in the throes of an election. As many Canadians know, one of the...

Recently, a friend wrote about a problem at the high school he serves as a teacher. Apparently, a staff worker with a well-known...

If you survey leaders of megachurches in the United States…if you consider most leaders of the burgeoning house church movement in...

When I was a student at Queen’s University in the late 1970s, I attended precisely one meeting of the student government there–the Alma...