Senior Michael Kunzler, Asher Church, and graduate student Jameson Payne (left to right) at the chess tournament. Church won first place. Courtesy | Ian Church A 12 year old beat college students and others to win first place at the Hillsdale Academy Spring 2024 Classic chess tournament on April 6. Asher Church, a seventh grader...
“Boy with a Coin” Iron and Wine – 2007 “It’s pretty much impossible for me to come up with a favorite song. ‘High Hopes’ by Pink Floyd (that guitar solo!!), ‘New Dawn Fades’ by Joy Division, ‘Hallelujah’ by Leonard Cohen, and ‘Galapagos’ by the Smashing Pumpkins are all some of my all-time favorite songs—often for...
Ian Church is a professor of philosophy and religion. This interview has been edited for clarity. What is your favorite place you have ever traveled to? I think Athens, Greece has to be really high up there. I was there for a major philosophy conference, but we also snuck away to go see the sights,...
Both Assistant Professor of Philosophy Ian Church and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Blake McAllister have been accepted into a two week residential seminar program on “science-engaged theology” and will attend the seminar to further explore their own philosophical queries. Hoping to bring science, theology, and philosophy in closer dialogue with one another, the Fuller Theological...
Visiting Professor of Philosophy Ian Church is receiving a nearly quarter-of-a-million-dollar grant for research that could topple the strongest argument against a belief in God. Church learned early this month that John Templeton Foundation selected his project from 2,000 proposals across disciplines and 150 in philosophy and theology. It is providing $220,421 to Church’s project,...