Tag: gordon jackson

His new book, “Be Thou My Vision: Light, Sight and The Christian Faith,” is an exploration of light and sight in the Bible. Three experiences in Jackson’s life prompted him to write it: his vision impairment as a result of the eye disease glaucoma, an essay by a Christian professor at Saint Olaf’s University in Minnesota, and his amazement at the many references to light and sight in the Bible.

Christians in Western society should care more than they do about the issue of free speech. At least, that is what Whitworth University communications professor Gordon Jackson thinks, and argues as his main premise in his new book, “Christians, Free Expression, and the Common Good: Getting Beyond the Censorship Impulse.”