Small Beginnings

  Phil Bishop, Professor of Kinesiology, University of Alabama [Sept. 10, 2013]– In looking back at my own 30+ years as a Christian faculty member, I have done a lot of ministry activities.  I have introduced myself as a Christian at the start of the...

The Spiritual Formation of C.S. Lewis

Jay Lorenzen Former Professor of Political Science United States Air Force Academy [Jan. 21, 2013] Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look to yourself, and you will find...

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...

The Praying Life:Connecting with God in a Distracting World.

Mark Marten, Professor of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County   [October 15, 2012] I have to confess that I don’t read a lot of books on prayer. However, last summer a friend told me his spiritual gift was “book...

Lord Teach Us To Pray

Phillip A. Bishop, Exercise Kinesiology, University of Alabama[October 9, 2011] — Q: What is the least popular, least attended church function? A: There is evidence that it is prayer, way ahead of whatever is second. And I understand; I find it extremely hard to...

I Want Them All

Anthony LaBounty, College of Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas [Sept. 4, 2011] — In my spirit I sensed that the Lord was moving on my campus and working in hearts. One thing I knew He wanted from me was to invite others to join me in a faculty prayer...