Posted in Athletics, Belhaven, Christian Faith, Culture, Higher Education, Missions, Roger Parrott, Uncategorized, World Events, Worldview on Oct 19th, 2009 No Comments »
For sometime I’ve been encouraged to take the time to write and share some of the leadership principles that have been important to me through 21 years in the college presidency. As our faculty, and others of you who write know, it takes discipline and it’s sometimes hard to stay in the chair long enough [...]
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Each fall the humanities department of Beloit College attempts to help academics understand the incoming first year students with its “Mindset List” which reflects what the class of freshmen will have experienced, or don’t know.
It is always interesting and sobering to read this list – and makes lots of us feel older than we wish [...]
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From The Times of London
December 27, 2008
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset
Matthew Parris
Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, and [...]
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Posted in Belhaven, Worldview on Sep 27th, 2008 Comments Off
I invited the Student Leadership Council for lunch last week in the President’s Dining Room. They are an impressive group and I was glad for the opportunity to dialog with them about the year ahead. Each of these students is uniquely gifted, with a vision and commitment to their assignment. These are students who are [...]
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Posted in Belhaven, Christian Faith, Culture, Worldview on Sep 18th, 2008 Comments Off
Dr. Stephen Phillips, Political Science Department, has been selected to present a paper at the Hillsdale College Free Market Forum September 25-27th, which brings together business and political science faculty from a wide range of Christian and private colleges. His was selected among seventeen proposals. His topic is “The Morality of Free Trade.” I asked [...]
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Posted in Belhaven, Worldview on Sep 11th, 2008 Comments Off
I know that lots of people pray regularly for Belhaven College. I often hear from alumni, friends, faculty, staff, parents, and students who tell me they are supporting us all in prayer.
I receive the following encouraging email yesterday. What a wonderful gift this is to Belhaven, and the other schools, to have these friends pray [...]
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Posted in Culture, Uncategorized, Worldview on Sep 7th, 2008 Comments Off
I don’t write about politics on this blog – and I’m not going to start now. But, when politics gives us such a blatant example of what happens when one’s worldview is ungrounded, I can’t resist pointing it out.
The Vice Presidential choice of John McCain has caught the nation’s attention and is the talk of [...]
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Posted in Belhaven, Higher Education, Worldview on Sep 3rd, 2008 Comments Off
Dr. Ligon Duncan, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, spoke for our Academic Convocation yesterday. He shared a marvelous message outlining “Ten Radically Counter-Cultural Things that You Can Learn at Belhaven that You Won’t Learn at Other Colleges.”
He gave us so much good stuff in a short time, I ask him for his [...]
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Posted in Worldview on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
A couple of guys made the news this week by getting a bigfoot costume, filling it with road kill, freezing it in ice and then calling a press conference to announce they had discovered the beast while hiking in Georgia. One of them was a former police officer. They hired a publicist, were trying [...]
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