Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Several weeks ago the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from Union University (www.uu.edu), Dr. Gene Fant, came as an IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) guest professor.  Union U is IMPACT 360’s academic partner, and our students are technically Union students by virtue of the articulation agreement.  Like my alma mater, Erskine College (www.erskine.edu), where [...]

In the course of my dissertation research, I recently picked up a book by John R. Mott, leader of the Student Volunteer Movement of the early 20th century.  Mott was one of the first heroes of orthodox Christian faith whose passion for spreading the gospel led him to inspire thousands of college and university students [...]

I recently picked up Dinesh D’Souza’s new book at the urging of a friend and colleague, and I’ve been very pleased with it thus far.  The chapter on the problem of evil is required reading for the IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) students for next week, which is when we rollo out the module on evil and [...]

More than a few authors of late have chronicled the history of American higher education with a view toward restoring the foundational role that the Christian religion once played in educating students.  College presidents of yesteryear, including John Witherspoon (Princeton),  Noah Porter (Yale), and Francis Wayland (Brown) recognized that their institutions were not educating students primarily [...]