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...

Meditation, Anyone?

James M. Tour, Professor of Chemistry, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University [April 22, 2013] — In view of today’s pluralism in our country and talk of meditation in more than one context, I want to clarify what I mean...

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...

Who Are the Neediest?

  Nadya Popov, Department of History, University of West Georgia [April 1, 2013]— In Matthew 9:9-13, Jesus is described as habitually keeping company with tax-collectors and sinners, to the point of calling one of them (Matthew himself) as a disciple. When...

When You Feel Burned Out

Heather Holleman, Professor of English, Penn State University [March 25, 2013]— Every spring, I suffer from the classic symptoms of “burnout.” After a long academic year of lesson plans, grading, and office hours, I’m tired. Teaching and writing become drudgery....