A satirical look at secular academia
and Other Ways to Look Like You are Building God’s Kingdom When You are Really Building Your Own! When I was studying at Fuller Theological Seminary, the library had a disturbing conundrum. Periodically, a student would pull a book off the shelf, only to find that it was the hardback cover with no pages. […]
Do you remember the good old days, when liberals believed in the freedom of speech? The University of California Berkeley is arguably the birthplace of the free speech movement. Indeed, beginning in the 1960s UC Berkeley was one of the epicenters of powerful countercultural movements that spawned the hippies and a radical commitment to question, […]
“I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain” (Che Guevara). Matthew Guevara is not related to the Cuban revolutionary / leftist hero Che Guevara, yet it seems he has received significant discipleship training from him. This courageous crusader, a student […]
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 fundamentalism than Christian Leftism, which acts almost exactly like agnosticism or progressive secularism and supports […]
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 Christian colleges, but we have seen a consistent pattern over the centuries: the […]
Craziness is the overriding adjective for secular colleges these days, and even a few Christian colleges. Here are some news bites hinting at the degree of this craziness on college campuses: State colleges in California have six gender options for new students, including “none of the above.”[1] Secular colleges dictate that campus Christian clubs must […]
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 when: People are generally a bit nervous about speaking up to buck […]
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 justness of war is related to the discussion of diversity. How would that be, […]
Christian universities who require faculty to hold certain faith beliefs violate academic freedom, according to the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) — the Canadian version of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), “Academic freedom is violated at universities in Canada that seek to ensure an ideologically or religiously homogeneous academic staff,” says the CAUT […]
“Draftee’s Prayer” Dear Lord, today I go to war: To fight, to die, Tell me what for? Dear Lord, I’ll fight, I do not fear, Germans or Japs; My fears are here. America! —Excerpt of the 1943 “Draftee’s Prayer,” quoted in A People’s History of the United States ♥ Nearly one million high school students […]
