Blog Is Empathy a Christian Virtue? Comparing Empathy to Christian Compassion Currently, there is some discussion at Baylor University about considering “empathy” as an ideal character…Perry L. GlanzerJune 13, 2022
Blog Is the Future of Protestant Higher Education Low-Church? Sometimes it is interesting to take stock of the field of Christian higher education. A…Perry L. GlanzerJune 3, 2022
Blog Marriage as a Required Liberal Art As most any study of general education will tell you, students do not find general…Perry L. GlanzerMay 27, 2022
Blog Avoiding the Academic Tendency to Generalize about Virtue: Why Virtue Education and Practice Must Be Specific, Part 2 As Friday’s post mentioned, virtue education is not effectively accomplished in a liberal arts classroom…Perry L. GlanzerMay 23, 2022
Blog Avoiding the Academic Tendency to Generalize about Virtue: Why Virtue Education Must Be Specific, Part 1 Between 1928 and 1930, Hugh Hartshorne and Mark May published a series of famous studies…Perry L. GlanzerMay 20, 2022
Blog I Want It All: Sanctifying Desires – an Essay for the Class of 2022 "I want it all, I want it now"QueenYour kingdom come.Your will be done,on earth as…Perry L. GlanzerMay 13, 2022
Blog A Key to Divine Moral Motivation Some years ago, I read back-to-back autobiographies of two retired tennis players who had achieved…Perry L. GlanzerApril 22, 2022
Blog Missing Good Friday: Forgetting to Teach Forgiveness But then, how can a man be virtuous without God? That’s the snag and I always…Perry L. GlanzerApril 15, 2022
Blog Toasting the Mormons and Ronald Reagan on Easter: Understanding Russian Corruption and Christian Courage I may have Ronald Reagan to thank for my marriage. During the spring of 1995,…Perry L. GlanzerMarch 14, 2022
Blog Keep Finding Your Identity in Christ: Responding to Sloppy Christian Reasoning about Identity Christians should always reflect critically upon how we use theological language. Yet, we must recognize…Perry L. GlanzerFebruary 22, 2022
Blog When Reductive Political Stories Guide Moral Education “The larger the number is, to which that private affection extends, the more apt men…Perry L. GlanzerFebruary 11, 2022
Blog Toasting the Mormons and Ronald Reagan on Easter: Understanding Russian Corruption and Christian Courage I may have Ronald Reagan to thank for my marriage. During the spring of 1995,…Perry L. GlanzerFebruary 1, 2022
Blog Gender and Character Education: The Case of Self-Control Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.Prov. 25:28 (NIV)…Perry L. GlanzerJanuary 10, 2022
Blog Christ Animated Administration? Administrative Accountability for the Christian Mission “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.”…Perry L. GlanzerDecember 2, 2021
Blog Searching for God in Student Conduct Codes: Substituting Morality and Community for God and God’s Grace Christ-Animated Learning could occur in plenty of unexpected domains. Consider student conduct codes. As part…Perry L. GlanzerNovember 4, 2021
Blog How Professional Ethics Secularizes Moral Thinking Any professor using a popular professional ethics textbook in their class is likely secularizing the…Perry L. GlanzerOctober 1, 2021
Blog Life Flourishing Is about the Percentages: So Why Does the Bible Emphasize Simple Dichotomies? This last week, I spent 45 minutes during a lunch trying to grasp for basic…Perry L. GlanzerSeptember 23, 2021
Blog Why Men Are Giving Up on College: The Death of Gentlemen This past week The Wall Street Journal published an article about the crisis facing men…Perry L. GlanzerSeptember 14, 2021
Blog A Theology of Dissertation (and Thesis) Writing: Some Preliminary Thoughts In a dissertation proposal defense a few years ago, one of my colleagues declared to…Perry L. GlanzerSeptember 3, 2021
Blog Is Your Institution Serious about Its Christian Identity? Learning from a Comprehensive Diversity Initiative Some colleagues and I recently undertook a national study of Christian faculty development programs at…Perry L. GlanzerAugust 27, 2021