It is important to realize that religious life was born out of persecution. During the first three centuries of Christianity, it was illegal to be a Christian. If you were caught at Mass, or refused to offer incense to the gods of Rome, prison and martyrdom was a very real possibility fo...
ChristianityTraditionalismInstitutional MissionChurch Related CollegesSpiritual DevelopmentValuesEducational PolicyEducational PracticesEducational TrendsThis article does not attempt to address the many and varied changes currently facing Christian higher education, but seeks to provide a framework for thinking about...
InThe Rise of Universities, historian Charles Homer Haskins (1923), provided a fascinating account of Europe’s earliest institutions of higher learning, from the early Middle Ages, when only a very basic treatment of the “seven liberal arts” was provided, “grammar, rhetoric, logic” (the tr...
ChristianityChurch Related CollegesLeadership ResponsibilityAdministrator RoleMentorsSelf EfficacyFigurative LanguageReligious FactorsA theory of women's leadership development within the context of Christian higher education is proposed, based on qualitative research involving 16 participants. Motivators to advance ...
“I’m a Christian, and I don’t believe that Christianity has any basis for discrimination, especially on the basis of sexuality,” Guillot said. “Also for me, I don’t want to see people weaponizing my faith and my religion to hurt people, and I think a lot of people at SPU sha...
Their arrogant assumption is that their fake version of Christianity and their ridiculous “trickledown” economics theory provide the right rules and regulations for the rest of us and that they, the smart and favored-by-god wealthy class are the ones who should dictate what the rest of us ...
Angell, President of the University of Michigan, who was trained in theology although not ordained as a minister, worked fervently to promote the advantages of Christianity as part of a Michigan education: “The State as the great patron and protector of the University has a right to ask that...
I was reading Herman Bavinck’s bookChristianity and Sciencethis morning, and this quotation about the limits of scientific inquiry really struck me. According to Bavinck, scientific inquiry is useful for understanding and investigating the natural world, but it cannot account for or help us make...
Here is a gracious offer of pardon, and peace, and of all happiness. It shall not be in vain to seek God, now his word is calling to us, and his Spirit is striving with us. But there is a day coming when he will not be found. There may come such a time in this life; it ...
Looking beyond the theories of Sorokin, we see such integrated existence hinted at in the mythos of world religions. It is symbolized as the Kingdom of Heaven in Christianity, the Promised Land of Judaism, the Coming into Day of the ancient Egyptians, the Pure Land of Buddhism, the Sacred ...