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
Blog Celebrating “God’s Image Carved in Ebony”: And Remembering the Tragedy of Pagan Anthropology in Christian Universities "'God’s Image cut, or carved in Ebony,' was a phrase first used, we believe by…Perry L. GlanzerJune 19, 2023
Blog The Secular University’s Problematic Justifications for General Education: But Christians Need to Provide Better Alternatives and Not Simply a Better Justification If you want to learn about the secular university’s pitiful justifications for general education, you…Perry L. GlanzerJune 16, 2023
Blog The Bodily Stewardship Crisis in Christian Higher Education: And a New Resource for Addressing It Christian higher education currently neglects to teach students how to steward their bodies. How do…Perry L. GlanzerJune 5, 2023
Blog Ask for Christian Theorizing and a Christian Positionality Statement: A Proposal for Dissertations and Theses at Christian Universities As mentioned in yesterday's post, my research undertaken with my graduate students has discovered that…Perry L. GlanzerMay 16, 2023
Blog The Scandal of Christian Graduate Education: And Some Proposals for Change The Christ-Animated Learning blog recently ran a review of Mark Noll’s important book, The Scandal…Perry L. GlanzerMay 15, 2023
Blog Letter to the Class of 2023: Find Joy “Are You Going to Go My Way?” Lenny Kravitz Dear Class of 2023, If there…Perry L. GlanzerMay 12, 2023