Dr. C. Baxter Kruger at Hope4Life 2023 – YouTube


The Christian Liberal-Arts School at the Heart of the Culture Wars | The New Yorker


Hillsdale College, a school in southern Michigan with roughly sixteen hundred students, was founded by abolitionist, Free Will Baptist preachers in 1844. Today, the college is known as a home for smart young conservatives who wish to engage seriously with the liberal arts. The Hillsdale education has several hallmarks: a devotion to the Western canon, an emphasis on primary sources over academic theory, and a focus on equipping students to be able, virtuous citizens. There is no department of women’s and gender studies, no concentrations on race and ethnicity. It’s a model of education that some scholars consider dangerously incomplete. It’s also a model that communities across the country are looking to adopt.

Source: The Christian Liberal-Arts School at the Heart of the Culture Wars | The New Yorker

The Noosphere (Part I): Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision


I go back again and a again to Teilhard de Chardin having read “The Heart of the Matter” decades ago. Today I saw on YouTube a tribunal of half-dead Protestant theologians pronounce their Calvinist sentence that we live in a cursed creation and appealed to the Holy Spirit for an antidote as I turned it off. And what do you know, here I am.

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A depiction of the Noosphere A depiction of the Noosphere

One of the key concepts of Teilhard de Chardin’s philosophy is the noosphere, which Teilhard believes is the next phase of human evolution.  Today is the first of a three part series discussing the noosphere:

Part I:  Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision
Part II: Christian Concepts of the Noosphere
Part III: Future Evolution of the Noosphere

The term noosphere derives from the Greek νοῦς (nous “mind”) and σφαῖρα (sphaira “sphere”), and is related to the terms geosphere (inanimate matter) and biosphere (biological life).  Under Teilhard’s vision, God created the Big Bang, which created an evolutionary process starting with the energy of the Big Bang leading to increasing “complexification” to matter, to initial life forms, to human consciousness, to a collective human consciousness (the noophere).  The noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere has grown in step with the organization of the human mass…

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Outpouring Live Stream Archive February 19, 2023– Asbury University


Source: Outpouring Live Stream Archive – Asbury University

Saddleback Church ousted by Southern Baptists over women pastors – Los Angeles Times


The Southern Baptist Convention decided to oust Saddleback Church, the second-largest congregation of the convention, because it has a female pastor.

Source: Saddleback Church ousted by Southern Baptists over women pastors – Los Angeles Times