Andy Shurson

Content and Grants for the Center for Faith and Culture.. Love the church and coffee. "Let your reasonableness be known to everyone."

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C. S. Lewis's Lost Easter Hymn - my new article for Holy Week on the hymn I found in Lewis's published letters.
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Best reads from the last week: @BryceFuemmeler on how social media and tech have made self-focus — the soul curved in on itself — into a whole way of life. @rbminerauthor on AI as our newest idol, arriving the way new gods always do, without anyone seeing it clearly. @robtervet on the Spurgeon family scandal and what it teaches us about the messy, grubby roots even the most towering ministries can have.

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What does it take to prepare the next generation for a Christian life of the mind? Benjamin Quinn (@BenjaminTQuinn) talks with Jeremy Tate (@JeremyTate41), CEO of the Classic Learning Test (@CLT_Exam), about Mississippi's education gains, testing culture, and AI in schools. New episode 🎙️
🟢 https://t.co/UOcsMbx6VE
🍎 https://t.co/smYhrA6Xti

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New episode of the Christ and Culture Pod: Is happiness something you chase, or something that grows through grief and ordinary life? @BenjaminTQuinntalks with @AJWTheology about lasting joy.
🟢 https://t.co/7Yftjv9xET
🍎 https://t.co/3KUP0EZNuW

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Best reads from the last week: @DylanPahman on the old question of whether devotion to Christ and socialism can coexist — as the word regains currency in American politics, the tension isn't so easily resolved. @storiesthtmattr on what to do when an author who shaped your faith turns out to have sinned badly. @MarvinOlasky on the women doctors who fought abortion's rise decades before Roe v. Wade.

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Best reads from the last week: @jarielbailey reviewing a book on why campus polarization works like heresy-hunting — students fear being branded unfaithful more than being seen as outsiders. @DrGladd on reading Revelation responsibly. @Seth_Troutt on cowardice vs. prudence in pastoral ministry.

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Feels like they missed out on the chance to make it into a lazy river.

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How should Christians wrestle with God commanding the extermination of the Canaanites? Ken Keathley tackles one of Scripture's hardest texts head-on.
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by @ken_keathley

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Best reads last week: @collinhansen on AI writing, @jake_meador on Douthat & digital media, Daniel Vollaro on tech & Wendell Berry, @pj_schreiner on the 4 senses of Scripture.

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@dandarling Elisha was behind this one.

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What does it take to lead a seminary today? Benjamin Quinn (@BenjaminTQuinn) talks with Southeastern's new president, Dr. Scott Pace, about theological education, the ministry crisis, and staying anchored to Scripture. New episode 🎙️

🟢 https://t.co/JqLaLbTr7p
🍎 https://t.co/E1z3GYa9HY

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C. S. Lewis preached in a dimly lit sanctuary in Oxford in 1939 to students asking whether studying mattered while the world burned:

“Favorable conditions never come.”

His point wasn’t that the war didn’t matter. It’s that the war didn't create the problem — it merely made the human condition impossible to ignore. We’re always falling in love, quarreling, job-hunting, anxious, or doomscrolling. There is no version of your life where the noise stops, things slow down, and the real work begins.

— Learning in War-Time (1939)

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Why don’t $20 burritos ever start fights?
They prefer to keep everything under wraps.

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Self-care or self-indulgence? @EmeriGlen on grief, puppies, and learning to grieve in the arms of Christ instead of just soothing ourselves. https://t.co/uygoFPFBJT

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@svigel I am doing research on C. S. Lewis's marginalia in his personal copy of Athanasius's On the Incarnation. Any suggestions on current Athanasius scholarship I should know about?

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They need a religious/ministerial exception to this.

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The Dept. of Education is rolling out a new accountability test for colleges and universities.

The test itself is simple: If an undergrad program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans.

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@ErikReed Let's not pass too quickly beyond Erik's correct form of a perfect batting average. Great work. However, you are losing me with the mixed metaphor.

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@bartbarber It seems to me that last part would be rather helpful in a denominational leadership role that brings lots of noise. 😉

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Liar, Liar: The Honesty Crisis (with Christian Miller)

Enjoyed talking about honest with my friend Benjamin Quinn on the Christ and Culture podcast, including the shocking survey result that 1 in 9 young people in the US in a serious relationship are also at the same time involved with an AI romantic companion. See ⬇️⬇️

@veritasforum @BenjaminTQuinn @JLSteffaniak @WakeForestNews

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This year’s Scottie Scheffler sermon from Ecclesiastes.