The university and the church have a lot more in common than most people think.
For example, this week, my univerity is hosting a faculty & student symposium for members of the campus community to present their work.
It's amazing how different "research" looks in different fields. In the sciences, we spend as little time as possible on background so that we can show as much of our original work as possible. Meanwhile, presenters from the College of Business seem to spend the majority of the time on their title slide (this shocked me) talking about the background and motivation and then speed through their original work. I've also seen Dance students who's talks seem to be entirely historical research, without showing what a scientist would consider an original thesis.
They're all very different---so much so that they hardly seem to understand each other---but they're all equally part of the academic enterprise.
It's very much like the church.
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