Currently our international Contact is published four times per year — March, June, September, and December.

Each issue includes an academic insert, a scholarly paper that promotes Christian higher education. To upload a paper to be considered for an Academic Insert, click here. You may also email iapche@calvin.edu.

Copy deadlines for each issue is the 15th of the previous month, i.e. February 15, May 15, August 15, and November 15.

Most recent Academic Insert titles are listed here. Click on the title to read the paper.

• Keeping Faith in Higher Education Dr. Gerald Pillay, President, Liverpool Hope University, UK
• Challenges Facing Christian Education in India’s Pluralist Context Dr. Varghese John, Principal (retired) of Union Christian College, Aluva, India.
• Fides Quaerens Intellectum                                                                                          Dr. Nick Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Emeritus Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University
• Growing through Networking
  Rev. Isaac N. Mutua, CPCHEA director, Kitale, Kenya
  June 2012 Academic Insert
• New Christian Universities and the Conversion of Cultures
  Dr. Joel A. Carpenter, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI USA
  March 2012 Academic Insert
• Christian Schooling and the Reform of Public Education
  Dr. Bruce Wearne, Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia
  December 2011 Academic Insert
• Global Christian Higher Education: Audacious, Risky, Diverse
  Dr. Nick Lantinga, Former Executive Director, IAPCHE
  September 2011 Academic Insert
• Warmth from Stone Churches
  Dr. Frank Sawyer, Sarospatak Theological Academy, Hungary
  June 2011 Academic Insert
• Is Cultural Engagement Biblical?
  Dr. Richard Edlin, President, Edserv International
  March 2011 Academic Insert
• Worldview Ecumenism for Transformational Education
  David S. Lim, Ph.D., Asian School of Development & Cross-Cultural Studies, Philippines
  December 2010 Academic Insert
• A Paideia Proposal: The Educational Power of Great Tradition Christianity
  by David Naugle, Dallas Baptist University, USA
  September 2010 Academic Insert
• Battle for the Mind
  by Danny McCain, University of Jos, Nigeria
  June 2010 Academic Insert
• Synectics Principles in the Riddles of the Lelna of Nigeria as a Tool for Chrisian Education
  by Samuel Peni Ango, Chaplain and lecturer, United Missionary Church of Africa Theological College, Kwara State, Nigeria
  March 2010 Academic Insert
• Signs of a Growing Church
  by Emmanuel Asante, The Presiding Bishop, Methodist Church, Ghana
  December 2009 Academic Insert
• Integrity in Solidarity: Christian Professionals in a Plural Public Sphere
  by Dr. Jonathan Chaplin, Director, Kirby Liang Institute for Christian Ethics. England
  September 2009 Academic Insert
• Christian Higher Education and the World of the Student
  by Peter Blokhuis, Ph.D., Lecturer in Philosophy, Ede Christian University, the Netherlands
  June 2009 Academic Insert
• Global Trends in Christian Education and Teacher Training
  by Moira Chimombo, Ed.D., Executive Director, Sub-Saharan Africa Family Enrichment (SAFE), Malawi
  February 2009 Academic Insert
• Overcoming Diversity
  by Sander Griffioen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands
  September 2008 Academic Insert
• How to Use the Bible in Christian Scholarship
  by Donald Sinnema, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, Trinity Christian College, USA
  June 2008 Academic Insert
• The Christian’s Calling – Even to Entrepreneurial Business?
  by J. Thomas Whetstone, D.Phil., Chair, Business & Leadership, Regent University, USA
  March 2008 Academic Insert
• A Blue Print for a Non-Reductionist Theory of Reality
  by Roy Clouser, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, The College of New Jersey, USA
  December 2007 Academic Insert
• To Lead a Better Life… A Pr/axiological (Re)turn in Philosophy (of Education)
  by Dr. Doug Blomberg, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada
  September 2007 Academic Insert
• Using the History of Technology as a Tool in Teaching Students to be More Aware of Technological Developments and Problems
  by Johan H. de Klerk, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
  June 2007 Academic Insert
• A Proposal: Two Problems, a Single Solution
  by Russell Maatman, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Dordt College, USA
  April 2007 Academic Insert
• This insert features papers in both Spanish and English!
  Equipping Christian Students to Connect Kingdom Citizenship to Issues in Today’s Societies / Equipando a los Estudiantes Cristianos para Conectar la Ciudadanía del Reino con Temas de la Sociedad Actual
  by Henk Jochemsen, Prof. Dr. G. A. Lindeboom Institute, the Netherlands
  Response / Reacción
  by Sergio Saavedra Belmonte, Universidad Evangelica Boliviana, Bolivia
  January 2007 Academic Insert
• This insert features papers in both Spanish and English!
  Sobre La Igualdad: Perspectivas Teológico-Bíblicas /
  On Equality: Biblical-Theological Perspectives
  by Vinoth Ramachandra, South Asia Regional Secretary, International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
  Response / Reacción
  by Elsie de Powell Professor of Philosophy, Retired, Universidad Nacional  de Tucuman, Argentina
  September 2006 Academic Insert
• The Promises of Civil Society
  by Govert Buijs, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
  June 2006 Academic Insert
• Professing God in History Class
  by Harry Van Dyke, Dooyeweerd Center for Christian Philosophy, Canada
  February 2006 Academic Insert
• What Is That In Your Hand? Realizing Africa’s Potential
  by Isaac Njaramba Mutua
  Centre for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education in Africa
  September 2005 Academic Insert
• Churchland, Kandel, and Dooyeweerd on the Reducibility of Mind States
  by Prof. Gerrit Glas, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
  May 2005 Academic Insert
• Reflections on Practice:
  Experiential Education as Personal and Social Transformation
  by Michelle Hughes, M.Div. & Clinton E. Stockwell, Ph.D., Chicago Semester, USA
  January 2005 Academic Insert
• True Knowledge Is Made Possible by True Religion
  by Dr. Edward Tingley, Augustine College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  September 2004 Academic Insert
• The Soul of the Curriculum: A Framework for Integral Christian Education
  by Dr. Hubert R. Krygsman, Dordt College , USA
  May 2004 Academic Insert
• Historical Background to Conflicts over Religion in Public Schools
  by Dr. Charles L. Glenn, Boston University, USA
  February 2004 Academic Insert
• Regional Paper: China – Hong Kong
  by Dr. Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  November 2003 Academic Insert
• Where About and Where to: Korean Christian Higher Education
  by Dr. Kuk-Won Shin, Chongshin University, Seoul, Korea
  March 2003 Academic Insert
• Reformational Christian Philosophy and Christian College Education.
  by Dr. Calvin Seerveld, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  October 2002 Academic Insert
• Responses to Lostness in Modern Japan
  by Dr. Hisakazu Inagaki, Tokyo Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
  March 2002 Academic Insert
• Scholarship at the Crossroads: Exploring Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Model of Contextualization
  by Dr. Michael Goheen, Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
  November 2001 Academic Insert
• The Perils of Prosperity: Neo-Calvinism and the Future of Religious Colleges
  by Dr. Joel A. Carpenter, Calvin College,  Grand Rapids, MI, USA
  March 2001 Academic Insert
• Why Should A University Exist?
  by Dr. Calvin Seerveld, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  November 2000 Academic Insert