A Grander Hope for the Academy
In Faculty Commons we long for the day when God might raise up movements of Christ-centered professors on every campus. We long to see colleagues who are serious about their walk with Christ while living and working faithfully on every campus, in every discipline, and for every student. We’re working toward this dream because no moment passes without the shadow of the American university system shaping our country and the world.
Every Campus
Can you imagine what a blessing such movements of Christ-centered professors could be to incoming graduate students, new faculty members, undergrads, and the academic enterprise?
How would our country, and the world, be different if there were Christ- following professors active in each university in our country? What tangible hope would this offer each professor? Graduate student? Undergraduate? The world?
Every Discipline
And what if there were movements of Christian scholars in each discipline, leaning into the particular gospel challenges and opportunities in a given field? The world could literally be changed if this cadre of scholars were continually asking, “Why do we love this discipline? As suggested before, could it be that God gave us a love for this particular discipline because He wants us to pursue, answer, expose, discover, or create things that would advance his kingdom and bless the world?”
All over the world, the gospel is already bearing fruit through the lives of professors whose expertise in their particular discipline is uniquely bringing hope to the world’s problems. Movements of Christ-followers in every discipline would only advance that hope.
Every Student
We also dream of the day when every student in America will have the opportunity to sit under the tutelage and care of a Christian professor. Can you imagine it? In Luke 6:40 Jesus teaches, “A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained, will be like his teacher. When grad students and undergrads sit in a classroom where a professor identifies himself, or herself, as a Christ-follower, every believer among them finds great hope, and every unbeliever tends to find the Gospel more credible.
Join us in helping create a new reality where a community of Christ-following faculty will exist on every campus, in every discipline, and for every student.
Heather Holleman and Rick Hove