This article was posted on Books and Culture on 01/2012 The public and private faces of higher education. The “best of times and the worst of times” characterizes the contrast between many private and public institutions of higher learning. This divide was accented recently when Andy Crouch informed me that the summary of Baylor’s conference on educating […]

This article was posted on Books and Culture on 11/2011 An agenda-setting conference at Baylor. Wisdom often peeks into our lives unannounced, while at other times we plan curricula to transmit its tenets. Participants in Baylor University’s recent conference on wisdom (more than 400 registrants) experienced both aspects of the journey to a wiser academy—and

This article was posted on Books and Culture on 11/2010 In a rare centerfold in U.S. News & World Report stands a monk in a sandstorm, pausing en route to his underground desert cave. Something seems out of place—he’s holding a laptop. He’s halfway between Cairo and Alexandria in Wadi Natrun, Egypt, but he’s in the center

This article was posted on Books and Culture on 07/2010 The contested terrain of moral education. One of T. Harry Williams’ many graduate students recounted a cryptic event at which their renowned professor garnered two unofficial awards, “The professor we learned the most from” and “The most boring professor.” The same mixed compliment could be