When God Lifts the Veil

John Walkup, Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Faculty Commons Staff [March 25, 2012] — Many times as followers of Jesus we are little aware of the positive impact that our lives have for God’s kingdom. But occasionally God...

The Inconvenient

Heather Holleman, English, Penn State University [March 11, 2012]– I receive a desperate email from one of my best students. He’s applying to this great new program, but the deadline’s been changed to tomorrow. He has no choice but to beg his professors to write...

Dialogues with Denise

John Marson Dunaway, French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Mercer University [Mar.4, 2012]– I first arrived at Mercer, a freshly-minted young Ph.D., an assistant professor of French, painfully aware of how many of the great books of the Western world I had yet...

Condescending? I Hope So

John Walkup, Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Faculty Commons Staff [Dec. 18, 2011] con•de•scend 1. To deal with people in a patronizingly superior manner. 2. To descend to the level of one considered inferior; lower oneself. One...

What I Learned from Dirty Harry

Phil Bishop, Exercise Kinesiology, University of Alabama [November 13, 2011] — Some of the best theology I have learned came from Hollywood. Yep, that first Dirty Harry movie in 1971 did as much for my Christian worldview as any Christian speaker I have ever...