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Café Cook  29


Have a cup of coffee while you browse this month’s brew:


As always, inclusion of particular articles or videos does not constitute an endorsement by ACI of the people or of what they have to say. It means we think it is worthhile to read or to view even if we strongly disagree with their point of view. We offer them to you as exercise for your critical capacities…

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          The Value of Relationship and Purpose Driven Christian Faculty Communities (short article)

          Check out resources on our Christ and culture resource page:



Check out this Podcast Series produced by Academic Connections entitled:

          “Jesus and Academic Culture”

               Podcast #1 (Introduction to this Series on Jesus and Academic Culture)

                   Podcast #2 (Niebuhr’s Chapter 1)

                   Podcast #3 (Niebuhr’s Typologies)

                   Podcast #4 (D.A. Carson’s Critique of Niebuhr)

                   Podcast #5 (D.A. Carson’s Alternative)

                   Podcast #6 (Big Ideas that Influence Academe)

               Podcast #7 (Understanding a Division Among Evangelicals)

               Podcast #8 (Going Forward)

Got some extra coffee time?  Try keeping up your reading on Critical Theory and Critical Theories in academe:

          Cultural Marxism: Imaginary, Conspiracy, or Revolutionary Reality? (themelios, Robert S. Smith)

          Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on “Cancel Culture” (Video)

          Critical Theory, Social Justice, and Christianity: Are They Compatible (Neil Shenvi)

          Applied Postmodernism: How “Idea Laundering” is Crippling American Humanism."  Panel: James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose.  (Video)

          The Truth About Critical Methods.  James Lindsay. (Video)

          Universities Must Choose Between TRUTH or Social Justice, Not Both.  Jonathan Haidt social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU, Stern School of Business. (Video)

          Social Justice, Critical Race Theory, Marxism & Biblical Ethics: Looking at Marxism and Critical Race Theory in Light of the Problem of Racism in America. Kelly Hamren in the “The Exchange” of Christianity Today

          Identity Basics: Who You Are & What We Know. Cori Wong, PhD. (Video)

          Homogenous: The Political Affilations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty in National Association of Scholars. Michael Langbert in National Association of Scholars.