RT Week of June 22

Friday, June 26th, 2009

(I got nudged this week by theroades. I appreciate that and now reciprocate; back at you man!) It's summer, I'm not taking any classes and so I'm not posting much... but that is not to say I'm not reading much. This is a few weeks old now, but read in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Universities Are Corporatized Because They Are Secularized by C. John Sommerville. Sommerville is Professor of History, Emeritus at University of Florida and on the Board of the Christian Study Center. Learned about Blaine Amendments this week.  As a Protestant, I am deeply ashamed of this chapter of... »

Religious Plurality and The Secularization Thesis

Friday, May 29th, 2009

The New Humanist has a great interview with Economist journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, authors of a new book: God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World, which seeks to question, dare I say "debunk," the secularization thesis, the theory that as societies become more educated, they become less religious.  In other words, religion... »

Are Colleges Still Gatekeepers of Knowledge?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Interview on The Chronicle Multimedia, Tech Therapy, with Ravi Pendse, chief information officer at Wichita State University. He  argues because of the ubiquity of information, the role of the university is now connecting... »

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