Apr 2, 2009
Martin Kevorkian, English, University of Texas [April 2, 2009] —My grandfather counseled me before I went away to college: “There will be those who will try to take away your faith. But they don’t have anything better to offer.” That advice, taken in the...
Feb 21, 2009
Mark Pritchard, Business, Central Washington University [Feb 21, 2009] —“Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child,” Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote. Every now and then I manage to get back to my alma mater and visit my ‘old’ advisor Dennis at the...
Oct 20, 2008
Sam Matteson, Physics University of North Texas [Octo 20, 2008]—I read the e-mail from my dean: “There has been a complaint regarding your upcoming lecture. I would like to talk with you about it immediately.” I had agreed to give a public lecture during Arts...
May 19, 2008
Phillip A. Bishop Kinesiology, University of Alabama Teaching on a secular campus can be lonesome at times. Grant proposals and research production are team efforts, but preparing for class and writing are often solitary endeavors. Like many of you I value...
Apr 21, 2008
Joseph McRae Mellichamp, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Management Science The University of Alabama “The trouble with Christianity is that most Christians are on the take.” I heard a speaker say this at a conference in Colorado years ago. He was a street-wise...
Apr 7, 2008
Joseph McRae Mellichamp, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Management Science The University of Alabama As a young professor in the early 1970s, I was indelibly impressed that God had called me to be His representative at my university. I concluded that if I wasn’t...
