The Power of Community

C.S. Lewis wrote to his brother Warren: We dined at the Eastgate. I have never seen in my life Dyson so exuberant–”a roaring cataract of nonsense.” The bill of fare afterwards consisted of a section of the new Hobbit book by Tolkein, a nativity play from...

Kingdom Building

Walter Bradley, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Baylor University [Dec.10, 2012] As I began my career in the university I realized I had the opportunity to be for my students what no one had been for me – a professor known as a follower of Jesus. Midway...

Handling Problems

Michael Atchison, Biochemistry, Univ. of Pennsylvania [Dec. 3, 2012] Sitting across the desk from me, one of my students was crying.  In her seventh year of the combined-degree VMD-PhD program that I direct at the University of Pennsylvania, she had just broken up...

Conversations

Susan Siaw, Professor of Development Psychology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA [Nov 18, 2012] Over the years, as Christian faculty at Cal Poly Pomona, we’ve paid for an ad to be placed in the campus newspaper.   I was the person who...

Out of Control

Phil Bishop Kinesiology University of Alabama [Nov 25, 2012] “It is important to know that there is not just one thing that is causing stress in our lives, but it is a number of things. The key is building in a sense of control-ability in small ways.” Dr. BT, U of X...

Called to Something Great

[Nov 5, 2012] Jay Lorenzen, Department of Political Science, United States Air Force Academy, Faculty Commons Staff In anticipation of the Spielberg movie, Lincoln, I’ve been re-reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s masterful work, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of...