The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio

Dean Lindsay Whaley recently led a seminar concerning “Faith and the Academy.” This class explored how Christians should operate in a secular academic environment, and how Christians can glorify God through scholarship. A key aspect of the discussions was the necessity of humility in a Christian’s [...]

A noticeable feature of 19th and 20th century thought was the growth of skepticism about nearly ever feature of life, from moral truths to philosophical reasoning. As the project of the Enlightenment was coming to its fullest flowering, and Christian conviction was, at least among the most educated, reaching rock bottom, reason itself was being [...]

Much like last week’s Tolle Lege writer Anna Lynn, I attended the Wheelock Conference three weeks ago, and like her I was particularly interested in the Government and Law panel. My greatest interest in the panel did not involve the relationship between Christian faith and the legal profession, but rather the association between religious faith [...]

Two weeks have now passed since the Dartmouth College Wheelock Conference, and yet I am still reflecting upon the many, unexplored ideas presented there.

Strongly considering a future legal career, I attended the Government and Law panel.  Immediately I was struck by the guest panelists; there was not an active practicing lawyer among them.  Stephen F. [...]

In philosophy courses at a secular college like Dartmouth, it is hard to find discussion of a moral system that is satisfying to a Christian worldview. Utilitarianism leaves no room for compassion or hope of a better world. Deontology seems too severe. Intuitionism and, really, all of secular morality seems implausible without some sort of [...]