Time to make some zombie soup7/12/2023 In this book, Wilkinson and Joustra explore our current age’s fascination with endtimes of all kinds, how it shows up in our media, and how Christians can understand and respond to it.ĭr. Wilkinson teaches at The King’s College in New York and is the chief film critic at Christianity Today. In May, the book under discussion was How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World, by Alissa Wilkinson and Redeemer’s own Robert Joustra. Schut, a professor of media and communication at Trinity Western and an avid gamer, makes an impassioned plea for Christians to stop ignoring the hugely influential world of gaming and proposes a theological approach to the medium. In April, staff and faculty met to debate the value of videogames through the lens of Kevin Schut’s book, Of Games and God: A Christian Exploration of Video Games. Smith, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, has written numerous books on philosophy, faith and the church’s witness to culture. The series opened in February when a number of Redeemer faculty and staff met to discuss the implications of secularization for modern Christian faith, reflecting on the book How (Not) to be Secular, by James K.A. “My hope is that faculty especially will find ways to integrate these books into their courses, that co-curricular will find ways of working these big ideas into dorm and home life, and that generally when these authors and speakers join us we’ll have a great table set for life-changing conversations.” Robert Joustra, director of the Centre for Christian Scholarship. “These lunches are a kind of curricular oasis, where faculty and staff can pause, look at some of the big emerging questions and the books that capture them, and work them out together,” explains Dr. This year, in a nod toward Redeemer’s new Media and Communications Studies program, the focus of the conference is on media and culture. Smith, Wilkinson and Schut will speak on the power of Christians to impact culture at the annual CCS fall conference, which runs from October 26 to 27. The CCS invited faculty and staff to break bread while discussing recent books by James K.A. Over a pleasant bowl of warm soup, professors chatted about videogames and zombie apocalypses. But these were the topics at hand at the newly coined Centre for Christian Scholarship (CCS) Soup Lunch Series. Redeemer students might have been surprised to overhear their professors, over a pleasant bowl of warm soup, chatting about first-person shooter videogames and zombie apocalypses.
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