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Alumni remind school of spirit

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Besides Homecoming weekend's annual musical, parade, breakfasts and football game, ACU also hosts hundreds of alumni. It's one of the best weekends of the year: the singing in Chapel is louder, teachers dismiss classes earlier, there's purple everywhere and, best of all, the Bean food is better. But what makes Homecoming so special is its ... [Read More…]

Women in church deserve discussion

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In I Corinthians 14:35, the apostle Paul writes, "Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says." This passage has guided much of the church's approach to the role of women, and the often limited discussion on the topic has left many women in the dark. But as more women and men ... [Read More…]

Flights create tranquil respite

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I hate flying. The thought of being several thousand feet in the air sitting with a bunch of strangers in uncomfortable chairs for a couple of hours just doesn't appeal to me. Not to mention my constant paranoia that a catastrophic, one-in-a-million accident will plague the flight, bringing the plane down - and me with it. I also worry about my ... [Read More…]

Tutor discovers gift of learning

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Last weekend I received a phone call from a Bhutanese refugee here in Abilene.   In English so much improved from when she first arrived in the U.S. two years ago, she asked if I would look over a paper she wrote for a college class she's taking. I said of course, and spent a half hour over chai tea, correcting her spelling mistakes and finding ... [Read More…]

University police protect students

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On Sept. 28 Colton Tooley fired around 10 shots on the University of Texas  campus before taking his own life. Last Monday, Brookhaven College in Dallas shut down while police searched for a suicidal student. Yet we are lucky to live in a country where incidents like this are rare, and here at ACU we have a police force dedicated to protection ... [Read More…]

Brown Library deserves more recognition

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Brown Library is, and ought to be, the centerpiece of our academic institution. It contains and represents a "cloud of witnesses" of learning. These witnesses radiate beams of light into each classroom and lecture hall on ACU's campus. All of our professors stand on the shoulders of those whose works sit enshrined between covers on shelves in Brown ... [Read More…]

Christians need to support Blue Like Jazz

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Almost everyone I know at ACU has read Blue Like Jazz, and lots of those people really loved it and will say that it had some effect on their spirituality. I felt an even stronger connection to Don Miller's follow-up book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years, where he discusses writing the screenplay for the Blue Like Jazz movie and how it affected ... [Read More…]

Text abbreviations do not belong in conversation

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OMG. This is OOMWPP, BTW. Why do we AENAD? In MOO, using TL outside of TM is SNF. Translation: Oh my goodness. This is one of my worst pet peeves, by the way. Why do we abbreviate everything nowadays? In my own opinion, using texting lingo outside of text messages is so not funny. Before I begin my non-abbreviated diatribe against using texting ... [Read More…]

Marijuana needs to be legalized

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More and more states across the nation are legalizing some uses of marijuana. A variety of messages come from the media, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Christian groups and actual users. The editorial board has chosen to outline the pros and cons of the argument, allowing readers to consider opposing viewpoints on the issue and come to their own ... [Read More…]

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