How do we as faculty engage mission as a way of life? It’s not as hard as you might think. /*! elementor – v3.6.6 – 08-06-2022 */ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px} 1. Simply connect with people where you are Your everyday situations can be the stage on which God wants to work. […]
“Do what? Rich, you know this isn’t the way I do foreign mission trips,” I replied to Faculty Commons Staff member and friend Rich McGee. I had made several international trips and had found that a Christian professor from America, by serving as a guest lecturer at foreign universities, can open doors and build new […]
The overcast, dull gray sky matched my burdened spirit as I walked slowly to the gravesite. Four days earlier, my best friend and fellow college professor, called to say that her husband of a mere four years had been killed in a car accident. Today, under the clouded sky, we were laying him to rest. […]
Can we have robust ethics without God? When it comes to seemingly black and white issues like human slavery and sex trafficking it may seem obvious what to do about them, but then again maybe not. While there is broad agreement in terms of people’s moral beliefs or sentiments about such issues, the really interesting […]
Philoxenia! An unwanted disease? In reality, it refers to a desperately needed practice among Christ-followers. Philoxenia is Greek for hospitality— a word literally meaning “the love of strangers” or “the friend of strangers.” What better time to begin to practice hospitality than during our traditional American holiday of Thanksgiving? The world is sending their best […]
As I began my career in the university I realized I had the opportunity to be for my students what no one had been for me – a professor known as a follower of Jesus. Midway through the first semester, I prayerfully crafted a short end-of-class speech including several of my personal interests along with […]
Over the years, as Christian faculty at Cal Poly Pomona, we’ve paid for an ad to be placed in the campus newspaper. I was the person who initiated that effort here and I think it is worth doing again. It has proved an effective way of identifying ourselves as believers—perhaps the first step in creating […]
