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 David Agron, Ph.D. | May 5, 2020 | 2020, Last WORD, Presidents, Spiritual Life, Spring, The Pretentious Circus
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...
by Dean R. Broyles Esq. | Jan 30, 2018 | 2018, The Pretentious Circus, Winter
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...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | May 10, 2017 | 2017, Spring, The Pretentious Circus
“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...
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...
