Dr. Everett Piper

In all the media hype and hoopla over last week’s “Beer Summit” something has been conspicuously missing. The glaring omission: The event’s...

I was recently asked in an email exchange if perhaps I was bit of an alarmist (Or perhaps the implication by the writer was that I am just dead...

The dust-up between Senator Barbara Boxer and the head of the National Black Chamber of Commerce has been the talk of the town these past few days....

Change is akin to an empty glass that must be filled before it has any moral value or ethical weight. The container is not what matters but rather...

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just identified those US citizens who are focused on "right wing issues" as security risks!...

Ideas are always directional: They have consequences. Education, thus, is not stagnant and it definitely does represent a journey that will take...

Education has changed my life and it has changed my family. With it God has not only given me a career but he has opened my mind, changed my...

As MLK told us in his letter from the Birmingham jail, it is the conservation of the immutable virtues that serves as our strongest justification...

The “diabolical human mind” (M. Scott Peck) calls us to eat again and again of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent of self...

Minimizing the moral weight of traditional sexual standards doesn’t seem to be the best way to elevate your argument to one of love, social justice...

Wilberforce, Wesley and a host of others recognized this. At times these great leaders were indeed dangerously close to “single issue voters.” John...

In recent debate I was confronted by a couple folks who fancied themselves as accomplished post-modern philosophers. They maintained that the...

As a university president I was recently engaged in a Facebook exchange with some young scholars now attending a evangelical seminary on the east...

The ambiguity in Barack Obama's position on faith-based organizations where he implies that all religious colleges should be obligated to fully...

A university commencement address that focuses on the most powerful idea of all: The Idea of Christmas.

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...

Ideas have tremendous potential and power. Ideas are always directional: They have consequences. Education, thus, is not stagnant and it...

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...