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Learning to Surf: A College Provost Encounters the Digital Revolution
March 1, 2013... March 2012: I attend the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Chief Academic Officers Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Conversations among my colleagues circle back to one topic: the impending revolution in higher education brought on by the internet As a recent Washington Post...

Leadership for Christ and His Kingdom: A Conversation with Philip Graham Ryken
March 1, 2013... Just as Wheaton College was celebrating its sesquicentennial in 2010, it also found itself naming a new president. Duane Litfin had announced his retirement plans a couple of years earlier, and the community turned to an alumnus and son of a celebrated faculty member to wear the mantle of...

What Time Is It?
March 1, 2013... In a "Letter from the Editor" in the January/February issue, I talked about sorting through stacks of folders stored at home, piles of books, miscellaneous articles, ephemera of all kinds, trying to restore a measure of order. That Sisyphean project continues. Not long ago, I came across a...

The Real Thing: Or, Anna Karenina's Silver Linings Playbook
May 1, 2013... Changing partners as quickly as bed sheets, a film character finally discovers true love, proclaiming, "This is the real thing." Cinema feeds (on) such fantasy, explaining the reception given two recent films, one generally overlooked, the other highly acclaimed. The latter, Silver Linings...

Charles Williams, Playwright
May 1, 2013... Can you imagine suddenly discovering a trove of major new works by one of the greatest Christian authors of the last century, a worthy companion of C. S Lewis and T. S. Eliot? In a sense, we actually can do this, and we don't even need to go excavating for manuscripts lost in an attic or...