These resources were compiled for this edition of Connections Review: Issue #13, Winter 2016.
Café Cook is a place where you can peruse a variety of links that we think are relevant to Christian faculty. So grab a cup of coffee or a latte and browse what we have to offer this issue.
Christians & the Academic World
- Tests of Faith (Inside Higher Education)
- No Christianity Please, We’re Academics (Inside Higher Education)
- Christians in Academe: a Reply (Inside Higher Education)
- An Evangelical Resnaissance in Academe? (Inside Higher Education)
Gender Based Harassment & Sexual Assault Cases:
- Caltech Suspends Professor for Harassment (Science)
- Berkley releases Report on Astronomer Sexual Harrassment Case (Nature)
- Berkeley Astromer In Sexual Harassment Case to Resign (Nature)
- Women Respond to Nobel Laureate’s ‘Trouble With Girls (New York Times)
- University of Arizona Sexual Harassment Spotlighted in Congress (Arizona Daily Star)
- Why Did UC Fire a Tenured Professor? (Inside Higher Education)
- Chicago Professor Facing Misconduct Charges Quits (Inside Higher Education)
- U. Of Chicago Scientist Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Investigation (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Post publication additions:
- Geoff Marcy’s Downfall (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Why a Congresswoman Is Pressing Colleges to Do More on Harassment (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Chicago Professor, Facing Misconduct Charges, Quits (Inside Higher Education)
Academic Freedom of Expression Issues:
- Academic Freedom and Compassion (Inside Higher Education)
- Yale Vs. Princeton: The Battle For Free Speech on Campus
Humanities:
- On the Connedtions Between Virtue, Happiness and Meaning (Virtue Blog)
- When Philosophy Lost Its Way (New York Times)
- My Top Ten Books from 2015 (Michael W. Austin, Blog)
Science
- Ellis Knocks Physicists for Knocking Philosophy…. (Scientific American)
- C.S. Lewis: Science and Scientism (Henry Schaefer III in C.S. Lewis Society of California)
Potpourri:
- Map Showing Where Most of Humanity Lives (Washington Post)
- Why Too Much Evidence Can Be a Bad Thing (Physics.org)
- Harvard Psychatrist on 3 Things that are the Secret to Real Happiness (Business Insider)
- Video: What Do Ancient Non-Christian Sources tell Us About Jesus (Dr. Craig Blomberg, Youtube)
- 5 Striking Finds for 2015 (Pew Research Center)
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