by Ralph Enlow | Oct 18, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
Safely navigating the new shifts Over the past month, I’ve been writing about how we in biblical higher education must adapt to massive shifts that are occurring in our world without succumbing to mission drift. Thus far, I have illustrated how the shift from a...
by Ralph Enlow | Oct 11, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
As I was saying … I’ve been writing about the tectonic shift from Christendom to missional and how we must adopt accompanying shifts in our approach to biblical higher education without succumbing to mission drift. In the realm of curricular programs, I...
by Ralph Enlow | Oct 4, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
Why shifting can help to avoid drifting In previous posts, I have been discussing the matter of mission drift. While drift can and does occur when institutions overtly jettison historic commitments, as has been documented throughout the 400 year history of North...
by Ralph Enlow | Sep 27, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Discerning Adaptation, or Inadvertent Drift? As I asserted in my previous post, it is relatively easy to recognize mission drift when institutions overtly jettison historic commitments. I’m afraid this may be happening currently in some sectors of North American...
by Ralph Enlow | Sep 20, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
A Kairos Moment Both the Old and New Testaments (Daniel 2:21; I Thessalonians 5:1) instruct us that awareness of the times and seasons is a gift to be sought. Such awareness requires leaders with the gift of insight to distinguish between chronos—you might say,...
by Ralph Enlow | Aug 30, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
In my previous three posts, I have attempted to summarize three of four distinctive aspects of the segment of North American Christian higher education we call biblical higher education. Without implying exclusivity, our collective understanding of the essential ethos...