In response to my previous post about UM leaders not giving up on church related colleges and universities, a friend challenged me with some probing questions. He couldn’t see, for example, how my claim that we can develop a robustly
UM Leaders: Don’t Give Up on Church Related Higher Education
I’ve been working for a UM-related college or university since 1995. During that time, in a variety of ways, I’ve heard an alarming number of church leaders admit that they have essentially given up expecting denominational schools to make any
Purist or Pragmatist? Quick-and-Dirty Thoughts on Higher Education
Two articles I have read recently rev my mental engines on higher education. Warning: a rant looms. Like getting caught in a whirlpool, two major opinions go round and round in higher education: 1. We’re losing the liberal arts and
Semi-Final Thoughts: Bad Choices and Divine Revelation
(For the next few months, I have added responsibilities in my work at Southern Methodist University. Hence, my blogging will be even more spasmodic than usual for a while.) Fearing Moral Talk With this post I’ll bring to a
Choices and Inclinations 2: Imparting a Moral Vision
This post is the third in a little series on college students and the worrisome choices they make. I’ve been thinking about the naive anthropology (theorizing about human beings, what we’re made of, how we’re designed, what are our problems