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Bell’s lessons continue to have value

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In a recent video promoting his new book "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived," pastor Rob Bell questioned one person's certainty that Gandhi was in Hell. That one statement has sparked a firestorm of controversy. Via blogs, YouTube, sermons, comments and discussion, Bell's single question has been ... [Read More…]

Good friends provide support

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On a shelf in the corner of my living room rests a picture frame with an old photograph: A gaggle of gangly girls posed cheerfully alongside a creek. Several squint through wire-framed glasses, a couple of smiles glitter through the wiry confines of braces and ankle socks set the scene. And everyone in the picture sports a matching tie-dyed ... [Read More…]

ADs need tight grip on coaches

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Bruce Pearl, now the former head coach of the University of Tennessee men's basketball team, was let go on Monday after over a year's worth of allegations and turmoil over illegal contact with recruits. For a little background on the story you need only look back to the middle part of the fall semester when Pearl was suspended by the SEC ... [Read More…]

Moral stands require preemptive PR

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Religiously-affiliated schools and their policies have found themselves in the media spotlight in recent months. While it may be their policies that initially draw the attention of the broader public, how those policies are carried out and communicated to the general public can be crucial to avoiding misconceptions and a damaged reputation. Last ... [Read More…]

Safety requires planning ahead

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I've always liked the idea of spring break. However, in middle school and high school, I endured the same monotonous spring break activity every year - the national home school basketball championships in sunny, tropical Oklahoma City. Granted, I always had fun, but OKC in March is infinitely more unpleasant than any other time of the year. It's ... [Read More…]

Statistics fail to control happiness

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Gallup Organization, a company that conducts polls and analyzes social, political and economic trends, released the description of who the happiest American should be, statistically. He is a "tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, lives in Hawaii, runs his own business and has a household income of more ... [Read More…]

Students support Tenaska power plant

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The Republicans of ACU recently conducted a survey on campus in cooperation with Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow to measure student opinion regarding the proposed clean coal Tenaska Trailblazer power plant. We questioned nearly 20 percent of the ACU student body and found that support is nearly unanimous among students for building the power ... [Read More…]

Tasteless speech remains protected

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As Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once stated, "It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have often been forged in controversies involving not very nice people." To say that the members of the Westboro Baptist Church are "not very nice people" would be an understatement. The church members and their leader, ... [Read More…]

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