Common Grace

Randy Newman Faculty Commons Staff George Mason University [March 11, 2013]– It is a challenge to start conversations about faith with non-believers. It seems we often have so little in common.  How do we begin to talk about Jesus if our colleague is agnostic or...

Trying vs Training

Phil Bishop, Professor of Kinesiology, University of Alabama [Feb.18, 2013] After reading the recent series of My Ministry Minutes, I feel like the beginner exerciser who is told to do the same workout as an Olympic decathlete.  In my role as a professor, I’m far from...

Office Hours

  Kenneth G. Elzinga Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics University of Virginia [Feb. 4, 2013] For years I found myself  seeing office hours as an interruption, as a necessary evil in my faculty calling.  Typically, faculty members are not enthusiastic about...

The Professor as Servant

Kenneth G. Elzinga Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics University of Virginia [Jan. 28,2013] The conventional talk about Christianity in academic life is, “What does it mean to do biology or philosophy or economics or French literature from a Christian...

Is Faith In God Reasonable?

Corey Miller Adjunct Professor Indiana University – Kokomo [Jan. 14, 2013] We’re pumped about an upcoming ministry opportunity and thought you might want to join us. I’m blessed not only to teach adjunct courses in philosophy and comparative religions at...

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...