Archive Month: February 2011

Christian Higher Education: A Proposal for Change

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  February 28, 2011

by Teri Ong In my last article, “In Defense of the Bible College,” I proposed that in light of new government regulations, church-based Bible colleges could well be the only way for students to get a college education which has not been defined and manipulated by our federal government. I based this on the premises that at the present moment state governments do not want to face law suits from trampling into First Amendment/church-state issues and that church-based colleges can practically operate without the entanglement of federal monies in the form of student grants and loan guarantees. Dr. Kevin Bauder, […]

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by Teri Ong The Obama administration is dabbling in more than just health care and environmental concerns; it is also wanting to have total control over higher education. Perhaps you have seen articles or heard about changes coming which will nationalize student loan programs and put all accreditation under the federal government. Then again, you probably have not been made aware of those things. Nationalization of higher education is not on most people’s radar of pressing concerns. But what we as a society don’t need is more cookie cutter education, and what the Christian church does not need is more […]

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“It Shouldn’t Hurt to Be a Child”– Hmm?!

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  February 3, 2011

By Teri Ong In the week from January 8 to January 15, the Wall Street Journal got more responses than ever before for a single article, to an article about (of all things!) – parenting! The Wall Street Journal is not exactly Family Circle or The Journal of Pediatric Medicine. What caused such a great outpouring of emotional opinion? The article published in the weekend edition (Jan. 8-9, 2011, section C, p. 1) was “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua, an excerpt from her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. She came down squarely on the […]

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