Archive for February 24th, 2009
Meetings

I like this from Challies.  Tim Challies tweeted, “Observed: there is an inverse relationship between the length of a meeting and its usefulness.”  Shakespeare was on to something in Hamlet when he said “Brevity is the soul of wit.”  I learned this from my Dad in a ‘They say…’

Intellectual Faith

One of our themes this semester has been ‘Intellectual Faith’.  Guest speakers have been unpacking this for us.  For many students this phrase is an oxymoron - reason and faith just can’t go together because they are two separate categories.  That’s not true and we have had several very smart faculty address this issue.  Check out Reasonable Faith which offers all sorts of articles and resources.  We are hoping more and more students begin to love God with their minds and bring the Kingdom into their studies and classes so that even more students will begin to see that they don’t have to throw away their brains to follow Jesus.