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Put on the Attire of Leadership (Part 2)

Many years ago, my wife, Phyllis, and I were the guests of the University of Notre Dame provost at a football game in South Bend, Indiana, between the Fighting Irish and West Point. At halftime, someone pointed me toward the private box where the leaders of the two schools were watching the game together. I…
November 19, 2025
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Leadership: It’s Not Only for Administrators (Part 1)

About 10 years after I became the president of Fuller Seminary, I received a letter from a college student asking me for career advice. His goal in life, he said, was to be the kind of academic president that I was, and he wondered how he should prepare for that role. I wrote back, telling…
November 18, 2025
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Music: The Soul of the Liberal Arts

Many colleges and universities, within the CCCU and without, continue to be faced with difficult questions regarding which academic programs to retain and which to “consolidate.” There are an incredible number of factors that inform each of these considerations, and I do not covet those who are tasked with the corresponding decisions. It is often…
November 17, 2025
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A Distinctly Christian Approach to Engineering

Should there be a distinctively Christian approach to engineering? If so, is it possible? After all, Christians and non-Christians seem to agree on all the technical details in engineering, like integration, derivation, Fourier transforms, and finite element analysis. So why do we take a distinctly Christian approach to engineering? The first and foremost reason that…
November 14, 2025
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An Open Letter to Non-Believers in Academia

Dear Non-Believing Colleagues: My open letter is divided into two parts. The first one opens with a parable of sorts. An atheist professor once approached a colleague with a sensitive question. The latter was a religiously devout academic from a distant foreign country who appeared to hold traditional views. “In your view,” she asked, “is…
November 13, 2025
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Christians Reading Classics: An Excerpt

The following excerpt from Nadya Williams, Christians Reading Classics, is published with permission from Zondervan Academic. *** Sometime in the mid-fourth century BC, a young man, Ariston, was walking home one evening from the shrine of Persephone in Athens. Suddenly, a middle-aged man named Konon along with his son and a couple of other associates…
November 12, 2025

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Redeeming Work: A Guide to Discovering God’s Calling for Your Career

In Redeeming Work, Bryan Dik provides an accessible and data-driven resource for Christians who want to explore the faith-informed career paths that align with their sense of calling. He does an excellent job integrating evidence-based vocational psychology research with scripture, theology, and his own experiences to provide an excellent tool for guiding and exploring multiple…
September 14, 2023
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20 Years of Professing

This year marks 20 years since I became a full-time professor in Christian higher education. As I look back, I recognize two distinct stages in my academic life, not unlike the “two halves of life” described by the Franciscan priest Richard Rohr in his book Falling Upward. The first half of my career involved a…
September 13, 2023
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When My Own Students Microaggress Against Me

For what seemed like hours, I stared in shock at the words on my computer screen. In a course feedback comment, a student had written, using a racial slur, that I was not qualified to teach the course because of my Asian identity. There was also the time that a student openly mocked Asian cultures…
September 12, 2023
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Binocular Vision in Life and Vocation

“As humans we have two eyes to view the world; their combined binocular vision brings depth not available to either eye on its own.” — Sir John T. HoughtonJohn T. Houghton, In the Eye of the Storm ( Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2013.), 264. While curriculum vitae means “course of one’s life” its academic use normally…
September 11, 2023
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Striving for Spiritual Wellness in 2023-2024

Ready or not, a new academic year is here! As soon as the calendar flips to August, my mind shifts from vacation to preparing for fall courses and setting goals for the new year. One goal on my list for 2023-2024 is spiritual wellness. Spiritual wellness is critical for my success as a Christian professor.…
September 6, 2023
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Announcement – Saturdays at Seven: Conversations with Christian Thought Leaders Launches September 9, 2023

As the publisher for Christian Scholar’s Review, I have the privilege of interacting with thought leaders serving in a variety of contexts including colleges and universities, foundations, associations, media outlets, and churches. Despite the challenging times we face in higher education, those conversations provide me with hope about the vocation we hold in trust and—sooner…
September 5, 2023
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Cultivating the Soil of Our Hearts for Charity

Let everyone give as his heart tells him, neither grudgingly nor under compulsion, for God loves the man who gives cheerfully. After all, God can give you everything that you need, so that you may always have sufficient both for yourselves and for giving away to other people. As the scripture says: “He has dispersed…
August 29, 2023