by Phil Shackleton | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, Presidents, The Pretentious Circus, Winter
Christian universities who want to be diverse have too often selected representatives for diversity who are from the Left. What role does cultural, religious, and moral diversity play at conservative Christian evangelical colleges? At the Carnegie Foundation, an...
by Phil Shackleton | Jan 24, 2017 | 2017, The Pretentious Circus, Winter
It’s really funny, almost. And sad. Too many faculty at Christian universities are more afraid of “fundamentalism” than they are of agnosticism or outright atheism and its secularist implications. Most dangerous of all, they are even more afraid of Christian...
by Phil Shackleton | Oct 17, 2016 | 2016, Fall, The Pretentious Circus
Eighty years after the founding of Harvard, Cotton Mather and his fellow pastors saw that Harvard was losing its founding purpose. They were so concerned about Harvard’s mission drift that they started a new college: Yale. Most Ivy League colleges were started as...
by Phil Shackleton | May 3, 2016 | 2016, General, Spring, The Pretentious Circus
Is your college or university on the way to becoming a liberal college? The following thoughts are culled from discussions with faculty and staff at several Christian colleges and universities. You know your Christian college or university has gone or is moving Left...
by Phil Shackleton | Jan 26, 2016 | 2016, The Pretentious Circus, Winter
In a recent faculty discussion of diversity, a professor of social ethics expressed disappointment that his students, having finished his course, had not come to the conclusion that the Iraq war was unjust. Let’s unpack this. First, he seems to believe that the...
