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 Bruce Cannon | Oct 16, 2016 | 2016, Fall, The Case, The Pretentious Circus
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,...
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...
by Phil Shackleton | Oct 17, 2015 | 2015, Fall, The Pretentious Circus
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...
by Edie Glaser | Jan 13, 2015 | 2015, The Pretentious Circus, Winter
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...
