Engaging the Culture, Changing the World

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Fretting Again About Splintered Culture

January 17, 2012

I am still fretting about the fact that we don’t read or watch the same things. The same books? Are you kidding? The same TV shows? Not likely.

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Are We Less Violent Than Ever?

January 4, 2012

Stephen Pinker, the Harvard professor who a few years ago famously and fiercely opposed anything having to do with “faith” in Harvard’s revision of its core curriculum, has written a new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. The book has become much-quoted and much-reviewed and is worth our attention.

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Saying Merry Christmas Downtown

December 19, 2011

I have become subversive. I have begun to say Merry Christmas in downtown Seattle, on airplanes, in the grocery store. I have no need whatsoever to be offensive to my Jewish friends, to Muslims, or to the ardent secularists who seek to control our public language.

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Call It the Starbucks’ World

November 2, 2011

We live in a very splintered society. Call it the Starbucks’ world where everyone orders up exactly their own pleasure: “I’ll have a tall, no-whip mocha” or “give me a grande, whole-milk, no-foam latte.” It’s very cool, of course, but it is a whole new phenomenon that has sunk into our culture.

  • 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

    Stephen Greenblatt
    The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    I highly recommend this book, but with caution. On the one hand, it is a marvelous depiction of the emergence of our modern way of seeing things. More»

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  • Seattle Pacific Campus

    Demeray Hall