campus gleanings
June 13, 2008
Compiled by Peter Schuurman, Educational Missions Leader.
1. A review of the new book “The Dumbest Generation” by Mark Bauerlein. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121063808679386853.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
2. “The Art of Folly at Yale.” This article will horrify you. An art student induces miscarriages after artificially inseminating herself as an art project at Yale. Says the article, summarizing a good article I sent out last year: “Once, humanities teachers cultivated perspective in their young charges; now, many of them instill grievance… humanities professors stake their authority on an unrelenting critique not just of contemporary society but of meaning itself.” Nihilism is orthodoxy.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-yn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050202795.html
3. The current Perspectives focuses on the Belhar Confession from South Africa . Apparently its been going around the denomination quite a bit. It might be worth a discussion with your Reformed student group and beyond. http://www.rca.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=3605
4.Chong sent me this link to a Current discussion on the rising evangelical intelligentsia. See http://www.wrf.ca/comment/pov.cfm?povID=41
5. Please honestly consider sending your students (and yourself!) to the HM Missional conference this summer. They get a special student rate, and they can drive with me if they are on my route to Chicago . You won’t want to miss In Community, the Small Group and Evangelism Conference presented by Christian Reformed Home Missions. Join us at the Westin Hotel in Lombard , Illinois , July 18-20. For registration information, go to www.crhm.org/conference.
6. The Lettingas made the CRCNA website! Check it out: http://www.crcna.org/news.cfm?newsid=606
7. See Paul Fessler’s article in the March 2008 Pro Rege entitled “What’s Wrong with Multiculturalism: Christian Scholars and Cultural Diversity” at http://www.dordt.edu/publications/pro_rege/. The article is pretty basic but may serve as an introduction to the issue with your undergraduates. It speaks of finding a “middle way” but leans more towards a conservative approach.
