Canada

Excerpt: The first Europeans to inhabit what is now Canada came from Norse countries about 1000 AD to spend at least two winters at L’Anse aux Meadows, on the northwestern tip of Newfoundland. No evidence remains of any Christian religious activity on the part of these occupants. During the age of exploration, Europeans from many nations came to Canada for various reasons, including trade, political expansion, and Christian missions to the First Nations peoples already resident in Canada. As a result of such mission work, and the replication or expansion of churches from the European countries of origin of Canadian immigrants, church-sponsored education was widespread by the time Canada gained nationhood in 1867

Clarifying Faith-Learning Integration : Essentially Contested Concepts and the Concept-Conception Distinction

The language of “faith-learning integration” remains popular among evangelical educators in both K–12 and higher education. Some observers suggest for theological and educational reasons that Christan educators replace integration language with other language. Even its advocates do not agree on what would count as integration. This article suggests that both the concept-conception distinction and W. B. Gallie’s category of an essentially contested concept shed light on the phrase. If faith-learning integration is an essentially contested concept, or is a concept subject to conception-building, then Christian educators may never agree on what counts as a paradigm case

Ellul\u27s On Freedom, Love, and Power - Book Review

Review of Jacques Ellul\u27s On Freedom, Love, and Power, originally published in Christian Scholar\u27s Review, 41(2), 2012. http://www.csreview.org

Review of James Tunstead Burtchaell\u27s The Dying of the light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches

The thesis that colleges founded by churches eventually cut the cord and drift into secularity is no longer news in discussions of American higher education. And for that reason, one would hardly expect to enjoy yet another repetition of the thesis, especially one running over 800 pages. But James Burtchaell combines careful scholarship in primary sources such as faculty minutes and institutional histories with unpretentious, witty writing to present a highly readable treatment of the old theme. Many books that follow this thesis focus on the mass exodus of Protestant colleges from their churches in the second half of the 1800s or Catholic colleges in the 1960s (in both cases in the United States). While fully aware of these historical movements, Burtchaell also deals with two colleges facing the challenges of choosing what direction to take now, notably two American colleges: Azusa Pacific and Dordt