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Why I Still Assign Research Projects (opens the original)
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Since the rise of generative AI, some academics have been declaring that “The Research Paper Is Dead.” So argued a community college English professor last year:For generations, we’ve assigned research essays in the name of teaching critical thinking, argumentation, and engagement with scholarly discourse. But now, AI can generate a fully formed research paper—sources, citations, and all—in seconds. If a machine can do it faster, better, and (sometimes) more accurately than a human, why are we s
Sunday Devotions: The Unhindered Gospel (opens the original)
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About a week ago, I was lecturing in Bethel’s Christianity and Western Culture course about the relationship between the Early Church and the Roman Empire. As an opening devotion, I pointed students to the last quarter of the Book of Acts, which tells the story of the Apostle Paul invoking his rights as a Roman citizen, first to avoid torture at the hands of Roman soldiers (Acts 22:22-29) and then to appeal his case directly to the emperor (25:1-12). At the time, that ruler would have been Nero,
Those Were The Weeks That Were (opens the original)
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I accidentally locked myself out of Substack for a week, keeping me from writing anything — or recommending links to other authors’ writing last Saturday. So let me get back to work here by sharing a collection of some of what I’ve been reading the past two weeks:• Even if it’s true that the market for nonfiction books is collapsing, “you can’t go wrong with retreating to quality.”• Some more good writing advice came <a href="https://sacredslang.substack.com/p/love-god-and-write-what
The Christian Imperative of Justice (opens the original)
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I’ve published over three thousand blog posts since I started The Pietist Schoolman in 2011. But before then, I didn’t write all that often.At least, not for public audiences. My first forays into that kind of writing were at our previous church. After joining the leadership team and becoming church chair, I found myself having to communicate with the congregation periodically: letters for the annual and semi-annual meetings; a column in the monthly newsletter; contributions to an annual Lenten
Christian Higher Education Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game (opens the original)
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It’s a time of scarcity in higher education, with fewer students coming out of high school, fewer resources coming from state and federal governments, and more doubts about the value of our work coming from politicians, employers, journalists, and the general public. So I while I wasn’t expecting the email below when it arrived in my inbox last month, I immediately recognized the problem the author named:The groups we consider “other” may change, but if honest, both at home and work, they remain
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