Dec 21, 2017
One of the fundamental truths of the Gospel story is that our lives matter. God created each of us for the purpose of playing a unique role in his grand story. In Ephesians 2:10 the Apostle Paul expresses a beautiful thought: “For we are his workmanship, created in...
Aug 21, 2017
Jay Lorenzen formerly Department of Political Science United States Air Force Academy God is glorified not only in His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is...
Aug 18, 2017
Sitting across the desk from me, one of my students was crying. In her seventh year of the combined-degree VMD-PhD program that I direct at the University of Pennsylvania, she had just broken up with her boyfriend—the final straw in an extremely stressful...
Aug 18, 2017
A Question Out of Nowhere In the midst of a recent breakfast, a faculty colleague unexpectedly asked me, “What keeps your walk with God vibrant? You’ve been a professor for over 20 years. All those years, you’ve had success in your academic career, but have found time...
Jul 11, 2017
We love our disciplines. Most of us have committed much of our lives to our particular scholastic domain. In many ways, we count ourselves blessed to work in an academic environment where we get to explore and teach things that still intrigue us. Unfortunately, many...
Jul 6, 2017
It is a challenge to start conversations about faith with non-believers. It seems we often have so little in common. How do we begin to talk about Jesus with colleagues and students who differ from us in almost all categories–religiously, politically, socially,...
