A Special Place in God’s Heart

David G. Loomis, Economics, Illinois State University   [Nov. 5, 2013]– Universities can be places of quiet desperation. I believe God has put us here to provide hope – especially to those who feel all alone in our academic world. God seems to have a...

Fully Present

    Rick Hove,     Executive Director of Faculty Commons,     A Ministry of Cru [Sept.3, 2013]–  It may seem obvious, but we can be only one place at one time. Still, our minds race to the departmental meeting, to our unfinished applications, or to those yet to...

Kindness and Truth

James M. Tour, Professor of Chemistry, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University [April 29, 2013]– What does it mean to meditate on Scripture? It is not an ethereal state where my mind is out of touch with reality. Jesus...

How Much Do We Really Know?

Phil Bishop, Professor of Kinesiology, University of Alabama [April 15, 2013]— Most people consider the highly educated professors of the modern university a largely unreached people group.  There’s no shortage of professor­­s who are downright opposed to...

Friendship

  Faculty Commons Virtual Team, Faculty Commons, a Cru ministry   [April, 2013]—   Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to...

No External Reality?

John Walkup, Emeritus Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University Faculty Commons Staff [October 28, 2012] There is no external reality. Life is what we perceive it to be. That was Tom’s expressed perspective. There was so much to like about him: his...