“Squeezing lessons out of any subject is bad scholarship. Moreover, it defeats its own purpose, because the subject will teach us its lessons most effectively when we pay attention most…

“To ask a student to support an experiment on photosynthesis by looking up verses in a concordance that refer to the sun or to leaves is not only poor pedagogy;…

“Moreover, there are just as many stories of young people who have thrown over their Christianity, not because they substituted a more intellectual faith for a less intellectual one, but…

“In their zeal to become prestigious, or known for their academic quality, many schools have moved away from their passionately Christian first principles. This is a matter of historical fact…

“Does not Scripture, clearly presented, have its own power to produce “application”? The Church already labors under a surfeit of sloppy exegesis, inept hermeneutic and fiery exhortation to rush out…

“Human beings, made in the image of God, are meant to reflect on the nature of things—cannot live without doing so. They are meant, in a word, to understand. That…

“All of this is a reminder, by the way, that the difference between a person who is liberally educated and one who is not is simply, well, a liberal education.…

“In other words, having a metaphysics is not the same as knowing ahead of time what the consequences of that metaphysics for any particular subject will be. Because I believe…