Teaching Evaluations – Oh No!

Curby Alexander, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Texas Christian University [Dec. 10, 2013]~~ Do not fear, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right...

Better Together – Here and Abroad

Rick Hove, Director Faculty Commons [Dec. 3, 2013]~~ For the past 5 years, Faculty Commons has made a concerted effort to encourage professors and students to minister together on campus. We are taking this approach further by encouraging professors to join students...

Balancing Life in the University

    Geri Forsberg-Madison, English, Western Washington, Communications, Trinity Western [Nov.26, 2013]~~ Research, teaching, and meetings. Students standing outside my office. Spouse and children that demand attention. Keeping priorities is not easy. I find...

Compassion, Not Coercion

Professor Russ Carlson could not understand why so many messages awaited him when he returned to his hotel while at an academic conference in Texas. A voice message from a reporter with the Atlanta Journal Constitution alerted him that he was accused in a University...

A Baptized Imagination

“In honor of the 50th Anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s death” Jay Lorenzen, Faculty Commons Staff [Nov. 19, 2013]~~ As a young professor at Oxford, C.S. Lewis found that his favorite books and his favorite friends were beginning to turn against him. ...

Philoxenia – At Thanksgiving

Faculty Commons, Virtual Team Staff [Nov. 12, 2013]~~ Philoxenia! An unwanted disease?  In reality, it refers to a desperately needed practice among Christ-followers. Philoxenia is Greek for hospitality— a word literally meaning “the love of strangers” or...