Aug 2, 2017 | HBU Faith & College Series, Higher Education
Our series of blogs regarding a Christian university has touched on the various colleges and schools of HBU and how each of them fits within the larger Christian worldview that we affirm in our mission and vision statements, and indeed in the Preamble to the letters...
May 2, 2017 | HBU Faith & College Series, Higher Education
Science and mathematics are longtime academic disciplines of higher education. In a Christian university, however, tradition is not our only reason for retaining and expanding these exacting disciplines. The College of Science and Mathematics at HBU is a living...
Apr 17, 2017 | HBU Faith & College Series, Higher Education
The Easter season has caused me to reflect on many things, and in that process of reflection I’ve tried to ask myself what the life, death and resurrection of Jesus have to do with what we do at HBU. First and most obviously, at HBU we recognize the Lordship of...
Feb 8, 2013 | Culture, Family
My son Michael Sloan has written a brief, strong defense of the liberal arts. I’ll share just a small piece of it here, but I encourage you to read the whole thing at the Winston-Salem Journal: Classics and other disciplines in a liberal arts curriculum offer...
Jan 30, 2013 | Culture, Higher Education
I didn’t really enjoy the movie Napoleon Dynamite the first time I saw it. My kids asked me to watch it with them after it came out a few years ago. Though I noticed a few funny lines, I thought it was silly and didn’t have much point to it. When I heard my...