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*Interview | Devin Brown | On Prince Caspian: Episode 2

*footnotes talks to Dr. Devin Brown about the upcoming release of Prince Caspian.

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*Interview | Devin Brown | On Prince Caspian: Episode 1

*footnotes talks to Dr. Devin Brown about the upcoming release of Prince Caspian.

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An Interview with Ben Witherington III

by Justus Hunter

A couple weeks ago I had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Ben Witherington III, Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and award-winning author. We chatted in a sitting room in his Lexington home, surrounded by the music and literature which plays such an important role in his life. Our conversation wandered from his time at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, his career and forthcoming publications, film, and The Beatles. Here are some highlights:

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Why Do We Need a Christian Studies Center at The University of Kentucky?

by Jerry Walls

I vividly recall a conversation that helped ignite the spark that led to the idea of a Christian Studies Center at the University of Kentucky. I was talking with a group of friends including Brian Marshall, Campus Minister at UK’s Christian Student Fellowship, as well as a noted Christian faculty member at UK. In the course of the conversation, I was informed that while UK had a Professor of Islamic Studies and a Professor of Jewish Studies, there was not a Professor of Christian Studies.

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Latest Blog Entries

Seeing the Invisible: Colossians Discussion Group

Ever wondered how to dig a little deeper into one of Paul’s Letters?

Take Colossians for example: What is the hinge that holds the book together? What can we learn from the structure of the text?

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Jesus the Logician

WHAT DOES JESUS SHOW US ABOUT LOVING GOD WITH ALL OUR MINDS?

What’s the role of the mind in the Christian life?

I’ve been thinking about this question lately because I recently preached on the gospel passage (Mark 12:30) where Jesus admonishes us to love God with all our minds. The context for the passage is this: In response to a question from a lawyer, Jesus speaks these classic words, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30).

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Easy Listening?

QUESTIONING THE VALUE OF COMFORT IN CHRISTIAN ART

To what degree is art supposed to be soothing?

This question, a large-scale issue in theological aesthetics, recently pressed itself upon me in some smaller ways.

Case in point: not long ago I gave a CD of a favorite musician to a friend. She didn’t like it at all, explaining, “You know me, I like music that’s mellow.”

Now, to be clear, I find no fault in easy listening, the songs of Norah Jones have been known to haunt my iPod. But behind the desire for all musical things mellow, I sensed a deeper distrust of art which aims to rattle our audio/visual cages.

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CLASSIC READINGS: “Pied Beauty” (1877)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was a Jesuit priest and English poet. Much of his work contains a dual fascination with his faith and the beauty of this world. One such example is his poem “Pied Beauty”

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