Resources for faculty and campus ministers seeking to help students on their journey to discipleship (QRF) TEACHING THE JESUS CLIMB: Fostering a community of faculty, campus ministers, student life leaders, pastors, and youth workers seeking to guide students on their…
Gary is currently on a writing break completing edits for The Jesus Climb: Journeying from Student to Disciple (Abilene Christian University Press / Leafwood Publishers, 2024)
Will twenty-first century Christian college leaders rise to the challenge of innovation as we have throughout history or will we merely get stuck in the past?
John C. Lemon interviews Gary on what it meant to following Jesus as a student in the First Century and today.
John C. Lemon interviews Gary on how we can live devoted to both the Life of the Mind and the Life of the Spirit in this turbulent season of coming to grips with social injustice.
With the help of our men’s field hockey coach turned online-learning coordinator, I have developed a virtual experience that matches the intimacy and rigor cultivated in my face-to-face class (…or not)!
The classics really do teach us how to live good and meaningful lives Jacob Howland, The Dallas Morning News American colleges and universities face strong headwinds, including skyrocketing costs and a shrinking supply of prospective students. Many are scrambling to…
Whereas Plato and Aristotle interacted with their students as friends, the depersonalized modern university student is often little more than a number. No relationship means no moral transformation, at least not for the good.
For Jesus prayer and education were inseparable, because education and the knowledge of God are inseparable.
The patron saint of Ireland is rarely credited with what was perhaps his greatest achievement. (Hint: It’s not green beer.)
While the value of such specialized degrees is occasionally debated, there is a clear trend toward increased diversity in majors. Once a rare sight, design your own major programs, like that of Swarthmore College, allow students to explore and combine disparate disciplines, like biology and music.
Saving Sweet Briar (for now) doesn’t undo the disinformation campaign against the liberal arts, who comprise about 4 percent of U.S. colleges and do extraordinary things typically not found in any other institution type. Data supporting this claim of quality can be found in multiple studies (outlined and hyperlinked below), and it deserves some attention because such dedication to uncompromised quality in a close academic community falls on deaf ears in our national conversation that focuses primarily on quantity, scale and technology.