Gene Fant

College welcome week activities can tell us a lot about the worldview in place on the campus. Continue Reading »

Praying the Lord's Prayer in the midst of tragedy is a timely reminder of the unity we all share as image-bearers of God. Continue Reading »

A confluence is occurring in Christian higher education in the U.S., with new leaders at strategic urban institution, just in time for new opportunities to be pursued.
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Is getting married “young” a partial strategy for living a happy life? Continue Reading »

The Netflix series “House of Cards” is a warning about what life might look like in a world without Christian principles, and it is not pretty, even if it is riveting drama. Continue Reading »

If Billy Graham is the great evangelist of our age, we can number Lewis, Tolkien, and Disney among the greatest of our pre-evangelists.  Continue Reading »

William Faulkner’s novels are notoriously difficult to adapt into films. Even with techniques such as flashbacks and advanced editing, Faulkner’s stream of consciousness narratives, especially the masterpiece exempla of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom! Absalom!, are labyrinthine at . . . . Continue Reading »

From what I have seen on my Facebook feed, pretty much any blog or story about how to deal with the demise of “the church” in “this generation” is guaranteed to go viral. Whether it’s cultural relevance, musical style, or social policies, everyone seems to have an opinion . . . . Continue Reading »

Gregory A. Thornbury, the recently-announced incoming president of the King’s College, has a great task ahead of him. The institution he will lead announces that its mission is to “contribute to American society by producing graduates who command the important intellectual traditions, who think lucidly about the social and political issues that confront them today … Continue Reading »

I spent a year of my life living as Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby , after I had answered a simple newspaper ad: “Waterfront 1BR Cottage. $215 mo. Refs. Req.” The landlord was an expatriate Polish aristocrat, regal in his every fiber. The tiny cottage was a wonder, . . . . Continue Reading »