Crosswalk.com en-us Thursday, August 07, 2008 Thursday, August 07, 2008 rss.aspx support@crosswalk.com support@crosswalk.com http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/crosswalkredesign/images/display/crosswalk_logo_blue_tiny.gif http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/epiper/archives/ http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/EPiper/11561418/ A university commencement address that focuses on the most powerful idea of all: The Idea of Christmas. Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:10:00 GMT 11561418 Dr. Everett Piper http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/EPiper/11561358/ I was involved in an email exchange over the past couple days regarding the Golden Compass whereby one defender of Phillip Pullman (a person who claims to have read all three books of the trilogy His Dark Materials) said the following: “Pullman is anti-organized religion but I do not see him as anti-God or anti-Christian and his comments seem to have no agenda . . . I really liked the books . . . I never read them as being anything more that a ‘quest’” Well, rather than challenging this with my own words let me cite a better source: Pullman himself. Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:55:00 GMT 11561358 Dr. Everett Piper http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/EPiper/11560257/ Ideas have tremendous potential and power. Ideas are always directional: They have consequences. Education, thus, is not stagnant and it definitely does represent a journey that will take us somewhere. With our ideas we are going in one of two directions: Either toward the forgiveness and freedom that only God’s revelation can offer or toward the bondage that always and inevitably results from man’s “constructions.” In this context, education represents the path we have chosen for eternity. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:37:00 GMT 11560257 Dr. Everett Piper http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/EPiper/11559141/ I am a liberal because I believe that the best education is one that indeed liberates. It liberates us from the consequences of those things that are wrong and frees us to live within the beauty of those things that are right. A liberal arts education is driven by the hunger for answers rather than the protection of opinions. It is not subject to the ebb and flow of personal agendas or political fads. It is not afraid to put all ideas on the table because there is confidence that in the end the student will embrace what is true and discard what is false. Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:41:00 GMT 11559141 Dr. Everett Piper http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/EPiper/11558913/ Some ideas should be left untouched. Like a good wine some ideas simply get better with age: They have stood the test of time and have been defended by the measure of reason. They have been confirmed by revelation and validated by experience. Yes, indeed, some truths have been so rigorously vetted and are so well stated that they should simply be honored, left unedited, and approached with humility Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:57:00 GMT 11558913 Dr. Everett Piper