by Kevin Bauder | Aug 31, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, What We're Reading, Worship
God truly does delight in worship. If God is more pleased by practices other than worship, then it is very odd that worship saturates biblical descriptions of heaven. These angelic declarations of glory to God remind us that through our own worship, we join with the...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 31, 2017 | Education
Eva Marie Hayne writes about the Great Books experience at Saint John’s College. It’s all the difference between liberal education and Liberal indoctrination. Perhaps our institutions could learn something from this model? Unlike other graduate programs in...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, What We're Reading, Worship
To clarify one matter initially, when I refer to “worship,” I am referring to a distinct activity. Sometimes people speak of all of life as worship, such that going to work is worship, playing basketball is worship, or practicing the piano is worship. It is indeed...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2017 | Art and Literature, Culture, Education, Reviews
As an author who has been much reviewed, Joseph Epstein shares his frustrations over reviewers. This is an older essay, but well worth reading–particularly for students who have to write reviews. What is a good book review? A first blush answer is, I suppose,...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Civility, Tolerance
What should we make of the Southern Poverty Law Center, now that it has started labeling traditionalist and Christian groups as “hate groups?” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars offers an opinion. The culture wars impinge ever closer on...
