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Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this wise little book Mouw defends Christian scholarship as an important and legitimate endeavor, responding in particular to those traditions that continue to be suspicious of intellectual pursuits. Writing in an inviting, conversational style, Mouw reflects candidly on the faithful Christian cultivation of the life of the mind and offers gentle advice on how Christians, especially...

But, alas, it was not to be. By the time I got to my sophomore year of college, I realized I was in big trouble. I was actually enjoying my liberal arts education—including philosophy courses in which we asked whether the desks in our rooms continued to exist when we did not perceive them! I had even started thinking that maybe I wanted to spend the rest of my life studying and teaching that kind of thing. Here I was, then, a student at Christian liberal arts college who was finding my studies an
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