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- Becoming a serious and receptive reader
David Lyle Jeffrey offers a thoughtful reading of C. S. Lewis’s account of thoughtful reading - Reading with our whole might
Marilyn McEntyre on engaging texts receptively - Taking words into the soul
Eugene Peterson on reading as an art of chewing, savoring, and digesting - Slower, longer, smarter
A veteran journalist laments “the sea change in the culture of literacy” and the decline of good book criticism - The all-encompassing character of divine grace
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The Houston Centre for Humanity and the Common Good is a five-year initiative of Regent College (Vancouver, BC), grounded in the comprehensive vision of integrative scholarship of the late Dr. James M. Houston (1922–2026). Its main task is to foster interdisciplinary and interreligious dialogue on the central question of the late-modern world: what does it mean to be human?
Inviting a range of philosophical perspectives through collaboration with the University of British Columbia and other institutions, the Centre explores a holistic understanding of humanity that accounts for the unique social, political, and theological issues of our time. Comprising a community of leading scholars, the Centre generates dialogue across disciplines — theology, philosophy, biology, cognitive science, political studies, and more — in order to navigate the mystery of the human person. Through public lectures, seminars, and a variety of publications, the Houston Centre helps others engage theological questions of humanity for the common good.
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A recent Bonus Feature
In this October 2022 lecture, Dr. Jens Zimmermann reflects on why a defense of personhood is a crucial task for the future of humanity. A radical change in the understanding of anthropology is already becoming mainstream, he says, in which human life is being redefined in technological-computational terms. It is becoming less strange to many that human nature and relations are increasingly defined by and subservient to technology. Zimmermann illustrates examples of this reductionism; explores the origins, teachings, and effects of this vision of humanity; and argues for a recovery of a robust personhood that can resist this redefinition.
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Guests on Volume 168
- BRIAN BROCK, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- FR. LUKE BELL, author of author of Truth in Person, on the relational nature of knowing truth
- PETER HARRISON, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- KATHERINE CALLOWAY, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on Francis Bacon, George Herbert, and poetic knowledge
- BRENT STRAWN, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on poetry as Divine discourse in the Old Testament
- PETROC WILLEY, author of Light from Alexandria: Recovering a Vision for Christian Paideia for Education & Formation, on spiritual formation in the early Alexandrine church