Recommended Books (Spring 2023)
Reading allows us to consult the broader wisdom of mankind as it works out ideas and beliefs in specific circumstances and reports back on the results. Authors from vastly different times and places can give us insight into the issues of our day, providing much-needed counsel to help us be wise as serpents. Below, you will find reading suggestions from our group that come from a wide range of disciplines and topics. We think these...
HSF Conversations: The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Originally published in 1994, Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind was a strong critique of evangelicalism’s lack of commitment to the life of the mind. Noll, a renowned historian, attempted to trace the historical roots of what we might call evangelical anti-intellectualism in order explain its continued presence today. In sum, Noll argued that there was no evangelical mind to speak of. The book was Christianity...
The Table of Nations: Biblical Nationalism I
Since 2001, we have seen a marked decline in American patriotism. A 2019 Gallup poll showed that the number of Americans who are proud of their country began to drop in 2005 and now hovers under fifty percent.[1] In 2013, researchers with the Pew Research Foundation discovered a generational devolution from the Silent Generation (b. 1925–1945) to Millennials (b. 1980–2000) of confidence in America’s prominence compared to other...
Being Constructive About Deconstruction
I have had plenty of reasons to walk away from the faith, or really to never have begun it. If you will excuse a personal account, I grew up in a household that did not put an emphasis on Christianity and the truth of Scripture. My family went to church from time to time, but whatever commitment to the faith we displayed by attending church on Sunday was often neglected that following Monday. So, when I heard the gospel and confessed...
Technology and Culture in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
A year before the United States first landed a man on the moon, director Stanley Kubrick released one of the most celebrated space films in history—2001: A Space Odyssey. The film won a host of awards in different categories. The visual power of the film is arresting, and the soundtrack became a trope in American culture. Yet beyond all of the spectacle, critics regarded Kubrick’s masterpiece so highly because, like the best art, it...
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