I must first apologize for the length of this post. It is a bit involved, but because the subject is not so simple as we sometimes would like to believe. As I consider the current state of government and of colleges and universities, and their dysfunction, I can’t help but do so in terms of […]
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A Tale of Two Kinds of Institutions
26 Jan 2016
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Wheaton College and Theological Integrity
07 Jan 2016
An interesting situation is developing at Wheaton College in Illinois. A professor there, Larycia Alaine Hawkins, an associate professor of political science, has been placed on administrative leave and may face dismissal over comments she has made and actions she has taken in relation to Islam and Christianity. The full facts are not out yet, […]
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What Does the Lord Require, but to Do Justice….?
30 Dec 2015
Few things make me more angry than injustice to others. So I confess I was angry when I read an article today in the December 7, 2015 issue of National Review Online by Stuart Taylor and K. C. Johnson (neither one a conservative by the way), which discussed and criticized the recent abuses by the […]
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My Reaction to the Campus Free Speech Issue
10 Nov 2015
The public university in America and most private universities and colleges are “dead.” By dead I mean that by and large they no longer stand for free inquiry and reasoned discussion and debate. They are being co-opted by various interest groups claiming offenses against them, sometimes by merely being a minority among a white majority. […]
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One of the more contentious topics that can be raised among Christian university faculty is that of the integration of faith with one’s particular discipline or area of knowledge. The reasons are not too difficult to discern. Mainly, most faculty at such institutions today (as opposed to a generation ago) have obtained their terminal degrees […]
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There is an interesting new book on higher education, William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin, Locus of Authority, in which the authors argue that more authority must be given to presidents and administrators, given the new environment in which universities operate. The argument runs that faculty tend to be “conservative” about change, that is, […]
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An Exemplar of Christian Worldview
07 Oct 2015
Our Bereans readers know how passionate I am about the issue of Christian worldview—taking every thought captive to Christ—in every aspect of thought and life. I haven’t lost any of that passion, but I am not the only one who cares about it. My colleague, Richard Tison, here at Cedarville University, also possesses an intense […]
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I just finished reading two articles on higher education, one by Walter Russell Mead in The American Interest and other in National Review Online, the latter which goes nicely with a third article entitled “New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom in Higher Ed Administrators” in the Huffington Post. Together these articles paint a discouraging picture, especially […]
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The Millennial Problem
14 Aug 2015
I know some college students read this blog, so I will begin by citing a pretty good article in the August 6 edition of Reason.com (a libertarian periodical) entitled “How the Federal Government Betrayed the Millennials,” by Veronique de Rugy. Perhaps you don’t think the Feds did betray millennials (you know who you are). After […]
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The academic year is almost upon many of us again. In that spirit, it seems fitting to write about academics. The following are random thoughts about the present and future of higher education in America, particularly Christian higher education. It is not an exhaustive analysis, nor is it very deep or even nuanced. So please […]
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