Ivory Towers for Christ

Today I am attending the first Faith & the Academy Conference at Faulkner University, inaugurating the forthcoming Faith & The Academy Journal. This is the first new scholarly journal among the Church of Christ universities in a very long time. The conference this weekend features scholars from Church of Christ, Christian Church and public universities, all questioning our purposes and distinctions as Christian colleges. Dr. Mike Young, who directs the Master of Liberal Arts program, and Dr. Jason Jewell, who chairs the Humanities program, are leading and editing the effort. They aim to explore the highest and deepest meaning of our purpose as Christian universities. Their program is among the brightest lights at our school, and they are charting a new course, not only at our young college but among this greater community. Along with the law school, their programs and the journal are reaching into territory all too rare among our schools. Faulkner is new and not rich, but this is a mighty step forward in our mission and dreams.

As if that were not enough pride for one day, the honors program at Harding continues to advance Harding's greater purposes with this important program, announced in chapel yesterday with this stirring piece:



Well done, schools. Keep it up.