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June 2016

June 07, 2016

Odd Advice from a Master Teacher

He was blunt, "First ignore yourself ..." This was hard advice from a master teacher,...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

No Place Else to Go: A Jolly or a Deadly Monday

When there is no place else to go, that can be a bad thing, unless...

May 20, 2016

Iago University: the Treason of the Professors (Othello)

Secular or Christian-too much of American higher education should be named Iago University where promising...

May 13, 2016

More than an “N” Christian: in the Family

Recently, Christianity Today magazine featured a symbol on the cover from Arabic that many have...

May 04, 2016

How to Respond to Difficult Political Times: Thank You Mr. Larkin

America faces five months of incredibly negative political campaigning. Sigh. We could all dash around...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Intellectualism, the Only Thing More Foolish than a Lover (Love’s Labors Lost)

If only fools fall in love, then only greater fools miss love for intellectualism. Intellectualism...

April 09, 2016

Slight Way: The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Slight Way

My Dad is always teaching me something new. Our family has always had a saying...

April 05, 2016

The Best Time to Be Alive Is Now

Jesus is Lord. That is true today. It was true the day they crucified the...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Listening to Lucy: The Short Way to God

The know-nothing and the pseudo-intellectual are the same personality type in different zip codes. The...

March 18, 2016

Education and Finding a Home

Ever wonder if anyone cares more about education than the business of education? After thirty years...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Don’t Give Up Your Education to a Puppy Monkey Baby School

The worst commercial ever may have been the Super Bowl commercial where Mountain Dew decided we wanted to...

January 2016

January 10, 2016

Leadership 101: Three Tips for Finding Leaders

I have gotten to work with some great leaders such as Presidents Clyde Cook...

December 2015

December 04, 2015

Educaton and Integrity

Education is possible, but not if we lack integrity. Isn’t it obvious that we need...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

Liberal Arts Education Needs Brave Defenders

Civilization is hard to build and easy to lose. Without courage and conviction, much we...

November 24, 2015

Great Leaders: Thankful for the Virtues of Seven Women

We need leaders. Talent we can find, but good leaders have talent with character. I...

November 13, 2015

Cleanup the University: Starting with Us

At dear old State U, you might find a Christian engineering professor, carefully quiet, and...

November 12, 2015

A School for Humans, not Snowflakes

There are three things for which I hope I would die: God, country, and family,...

November 11, 2015

Let’s Fix the University

Yale does research magnificently and prepares graduates for the present upper class. University of Missouri...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

On Being Humble

For each of our (now adult) children, we had a "lesson." For one it was:...

October 23, 2015

A Vision is Life

Vince Lombardi inherited a losing team with losing players and made that team one of...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Avoid the Weird: Why Conservatives Should Stay as Mainstream as Possible

Once I went to a Christian event with a friend and realized: "We are weird...

September 01, 2015

The Twilight Struggle: Lies We Believe

We are telling people horrible lies, peddling false hopes in the name of Jesus. Jesus...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Examine Your Life Not Test Your Life

Most of us should examine our assumptions more than we do. There is a reason...

August 24, 2015

Dreaming the Wonderful Dream: The Saint Constantine School

I left one job and turned down my dream job as president of a great...

August 22, 2015

Three Things Christian Colleges Can Get Right

Students should look back on college with joy, but many are saddled with horrible debt...

August 21, 2015

Back to School: The Leap from the Lion’s Head

If there was ever a movie about the education of the soul, Indiana Jones and the...

August 20, 2015

Back to School: Only In the Footsteps of God

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a motion picture that deals with the formation of...

August 19, 2015

Back to School: Only the Penitent Man Shall Pass

Everything you need to know about education can be found in Indiana Jones and the Last...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

The Shallow Education of America

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So I was told in my childhood ...

July 26, 2015

Real Education is Liberating and Will Thrive

Higher education faces imminent peril, but most schools are avoiding solutions the way a vampire...