I like reading Stanley Fish’s posts at the New York Times, and he just came out with another one on the same theme he’s been hitting for a while. So I came out with a comment on the same theme I always write on when I comment on Fish’s posts. Click here and then vote...
Mark Ward
Bible Integration Level 3
The first three posts in this series discussed 1) the problems created in Christian education when the Bible is not soundly integrated into the curriculum, 2) Level 1 Bible Integration (BI) at BJU Press, and 3) Level 2 BI. Now on to Level 3! Level 3: Rebuilding with...
Bible Integration Level 2
The first two posts in this series discussed 1) the problems created in Christian education when the Bible is not soundly integrated into the curriculum and 2) Level 1 Bible Integration (BI) at BJU Press. Now on to level 2! Level 2: Responding with the Bible 2a...
Samuel Johnson on Blogging?
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Bible Integration Level 1
In my first post in this short series, I introduced the concept, not original to me, of Bible Integration “levels” in Christian education. At the end, I talked about “level 0,” where the Bible is not integrated into the academic disciplines at all but kept separate....
Christian Schools and Bible Integration
A Personal Narrative When I entered a Christian school in 1985, the movement it was part of was still young and full of excitement. The generation of teachers, principals, and pastors which began the several Christian schools I eventually attended was dedicated and...
Pictures from Israel
CONTROVERSY! AGAIN!
Three controversies are going on right now among people close to me. The only one in which I’m involved personally hardly deserves the title, but it could have deserved a worse one—mêlée, fracas, altercation—if the participants had not loved the Lord and one another....
NICOT/NICNT Logos Discount for BJU Students and F/S
The New International Commentary was just added at my request to BJU’s Logos discount page. It’s now $1200 for students and professors instead of $1600. Of course, it pays to pre-pub, because it was once available for $1000.
Faerie and Metanarrative
JRR Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings, once commented that stories like his, at their best, serve as "a far-off gleam or echo of evangelium [the gospel] in the real world." And one famous conversation in his epic tale, one I pull out and read every so often,...