by Richard Liverance | Feb 12, 2019 | 2019, Academics, Winter
Ever since the Aramean, Naaman, traveled to Samaria to seek healing from the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 5:1 ff), and ever since a group of magi traveled from Persia in search of the Messiah (Matthew 2:1-2), adventurous Gentiles from across the globe have traveled to...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Fall, Spiritual Life
Christian colleges founded with offering plate money have shown a disturbing ability to drift away from the purposes for which so many had previously sacrificed. Aren’t administrators that lead a Christian institution away from Kingdom purposes guilty of grand...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Assessment, Fall, Spiritual Life
Just as colleges are required to make public their consumer outcomes (e.g., graduation rate, retention rate, employment rate), we believe Christian colleges should also make public their spiritual outcomes. Having proposed this to the ABHE Commission on accreditation,...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Jan 25, 2017 | 2017, Board, Presidents, Spiritual Life, Winter
Safeguarding against Mission Drift In the Middle Ages, kind-hearted Franciscan monks developed a charity model to make sure the poor could buy food and wisely manage their money. This model, called Montes Pietatius, was also intended to help protect the poor from...
by Samuel Ayers | May 3, 2016 | Academics, General, Spiritual Life, Spring
In the Christian college setting, it is dangerous to presume that all professors in all departments are integrating their faith in the classroom. It is also dangerous to presume that this topic is routinely addressed with new faculty or revisited in department...
