Dr. Everett Piper

Some ideas should just be left untouched. One example is the original statement that led to the last Thursday in November being recognized as a...

Do we really believe that all paths lead to the same destination or does common sense and basic logic tell us that if you want to get from point A...

Today's college students (and by association all of us who are complicit in the contemporary educational model), bear the consequences of the...

Perhaps we should remember the story of Narcissus. As we try to make sense out of the clamor of competing ideas and political agendas do we find...

I wonder — Is it possible that in the story of Solomon we find a timely and poignant lesson for today? Here is a question: Are we more like the...

If you believe in justice, if you want mercy for yourself and seek to be an instrument of it in service to others, if you listen to stories such...

Did we get what we wanted when we spent our inheritance? Is our chosen path as much fun to traverse as we hoped? Have “our wildest dreams” led us...

We can’t just talk we must walk. We must practice what we preach. As faith without works is dead so are beliefs without behavior. Yes, orthodoxy is...

Worldviews have consequences. Some admit truth exists and that we are obligated to pursue it and speak it. Other worldviews boldly state that there...

I was recently reading the works of contemporary scholars such as Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, and Jacques Derrida who argue that there is no...

There is no liberation without law as there is no freedom without discipline. Humans will never experience real liberty until we learn to submit...

...I would like to focus on the power of a good idea, one that bore its fruit some two hundred years ago on February 23, 1807 on the streets of...