Blog Moral Expectations to and of the Vulnerable: How Both Powerful Politicians and Elite Academics Can Get Them Wrong I recently wrote about how God’s kindness is directed to those considered vulnerable or oppressed…Perry L. GlanzerMarch 22, 2024
Blog Resisting Educational Nationalism Editor's Note: We apologize for the recent byline errors and broken links in our posts.…Perry L. GlanzerMarch 6, 2024
Blog Sorry Canadians, Southerners, and Methodists, Nice is Not a Christian Virtue (but Kindness Is), Part II “It just wears you out being with nice people,” Stanley Hauerwas points out in a…Perry L. GlanzerFebruary 20, 2024
Blog Sorry Canadians, Southerners, and Methodists, Nice is Not a Christian Virtue (but Kindness Is), Part 1 “Nice” is not an English word used in any serious Bible translation and “being nice”…Perry L. GlanzerFebruary 19, 2024
Blog How to Avoid Dehumanizing Others: Unleashing the Image of God “And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every…Perry L. GlanzerJanuary 15, 2024
Blog How Mainline Protestant Universities Secularize: Secular Accommodation and Its Signs I experienced my oddest graduate class discussion in a comparative ethics course at the University…Perry L. GlanzerDecember 8, 2023
Blog What Is a Christian University? A New Book That Answers This Question During my academic career researching faith-based higher education in North America and around the world,…Perry L. GlanzerNovember 17, 2023
Blog A Major Threat to Christ-Animated Learning: Confusion about Hospitality to Non-Christians at Christian Universities This past month, my wife and I had a Muslim Kazak family over for dinner.…Perry L. GlanzerNovember 3, 2023
Blog Should Christian Universities Issue Public Statements about Current Events? The past few weeks have taught us that we live in an age of moral…Perry L. GlanzerOctober 20, 2023
Blog Are Hedonism and Hopelessness Overtaking Christian Students’ Ambivalence about Children? I can still remember when I first encountered someone with strong convictions about overpopulation and…Perry L. GlanzerOctober 12, 2023
Blog The Danger of Identity-Based Generalizations: And Why Christianity Can Help The title of a study released this month explained its key findings, “The Rise of…Perry L. GlanzerSeptember 29, 2023
Blog Which Institutional Types Are Experiencing Significant Enrollment Decline? Examining the New Data In an earlier blog post, I reported that public higher education enrollment shrank -4% between…Perry L. GlanzerSeptember 8, 2023
Blog Faith Needs to Seek Excellence (and Then Understanding): The Uniqueness of Christian Education I am going to start with a controversial claim. I believe the famous phrase, “faith…Perry L. GlanzerAugust 28, 2023
Blog Why Are Christian Campus Conversations about Alcohol So Anemic? Part II: A Substantive Christian Approach A friend of mine recently shared that when talking with his daughter about her classes…Perry L. GlanzerAugust 15, 2023
Blog Why Are Christian Campus Conversations about Alcohol So Anemic? Part I: The Evidence Survey Q: How does the Christian faith inform your message about alcohol?Participant: “We don’t really…Perry L. GlanzerAugust 14, 2023
Blog Christian Graduate Education Curricula Is Missing Christianity I am continually amazed at how provincial and specialized contemporary graduate education is. By provincial…Perry L. GlanzerAugust 4, 2023
Blog Christian Entrepreneurship in the Former Soviet Union: A Tribute to Paul Eshleman In 1994 and 1995, I traveled to seventeen different cities in Russia and Ukraine to…Perry L. GlanzerJuly 7, 2023
Blog Like Families, Every Nation Is Fallen: But Like Families, Some Countries Promote Flourishing More than Others, Part 2 When visiting Australia this past year, I happened to catch a taxi ride with an…Perry L. GlanzerJune 30, 2023
Blog Like Families, Every Nation Is Fallen: But Like Families, Some Countries Promote Flourishing More than Others Part 1 “A man may have to die for his country, but no man must, in an…Perry L. GlanzerJune 29, 2023
Blog Which Sectors of Christian Higher Education Actually Grew During the COVID Years? In a recent blog post, I addressed the sloppy, alarmist reporting about the state of…Perry L. GlanzerJune 23, 2023