by Ralph Enlow | Dec 6, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Edification |
Any secret Jane Austen admirers out there? At the risk of having to give up my man card, I readily admit that I am a fan of Jane Austen’s romantic novels. One such novel, Mansfield Park, tells the story of Fanny Price, who endures with steadfast equanimity...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 29, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed |
Landing the plane … This is the 10th and final post in a series than began with “Anchoring Against Mission Drift.” I have been observing that mission drift is a peculiar vulnerability of biblical higher education institutions. Mission drift can and...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 22, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed |
From threats to opportunities In my previous post, I reviewed four categories of threats to our biblical higher education institutions and educational values: commodification, consumerism, conscience, and cost-less Christianity. Although biblical higher education is...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 15, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed |
Challenges that demand confrontation In my previous post, I summarized the narrative that has dominated higher education’s intellectual and policy landscape over the past five years or more. In short, this narrative maintains that North America’s higher...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 8, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
A new higher education narrative: the kettle is boiling … In addition to the tectonic shifts we are confronting within the church and biblical higher education itself (see my recent series of posts, beginning with Anchoring Against Mission Drift) additional...
by Ralph Enlow | Nov 1, 2015 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
Shift or drift For more than a month now I have 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. In previous posts, I have commented about the implications of the...