Engaging the Culture, Changing the World

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A Walk in the Garden Alone

Along with two billion Christians around the globe, I enter this Holy Week reverently, expectant, full of awe and hope. This season in the life of Christians is charged with meaning and mystery. It is a poignant time, a time of immense curiosity, a time of profound sadness and expansive joy.

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How to Go About Changing Our Behavior

In his weekly column last week, David Brooks takes up the question of how, if at all, we can change our behavior. This is often a theme of Brooks, as it is with many writers of our day who feel something is out of whack and needs changing.

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Good News for a Bad News World

We are all yearning for good news these days: good news that our dismal economy has begun to bottom out, that once again we are creating new jobs; good news that Europe and America have begun to live within their means …

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Profound Truth, Clear Sentences, Such Joy

Last week I received a note from my dear friend, Professor Rick Steele, one of the stars on what has become such an extraordinary faculty of the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University.

  • The President’s Blog

    Philip Eaton Faith, culture, and education — those have been the themes of my life. My reflections seem to gravitate in those directions. My reading too. Each is decisively important for our individual lives. Each is profoundly important for the future of our world. This blog will devote time to just these matters, seeking to stay current with the cultural conversation swirling around our world, trying to come to some conclusions about the meaning of it all, hoping to live out my Christian life with joy and some small measure of influence.

    -Philip W. Eaton, President, Seattle Pacific University

  • What I’m Reading

    The Swerve

    N.T. Wright
    Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters.

    N.T. Wright has done it again, writing here a new statement about Jesus, one that is clarifying, bracing, fresh, yet another book by this great scholar that may change your life. More»

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  • Seattle Pacific Campus

    Demeray Hall