Published Monday, November 3, 2025 | | | TUESDAY EVENING!!! VIPS READY TO SPEAK | | | WE WILL BE REMEMBERING SOME KEY MOMENTS FROM TPUSA AT the UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA | | TPUSA staff & students will be with us Tuesday evening as we take a few moments to honor them for the incredible impact they are having at the University of Oklahoma! Come meet today's youth who are preparing to be tomorrow's leaders! | | SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. | | America’s future lies in the hands of its clergy and its institutions of academia. For more than 100 years, both have failed to elevate the minds of America’s school children, its political class, its film industry, and the whole of the divine call to instill Godliness in each of the Seven Mountains of Culture. | | Last weekend, Dr Everett Piper wrote of universities who call themselves Christian but who no longer hold to Scripture, preferring instead to bend the knee to academia’s reign of secularism.
Professor Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) is praised as being among the foremost of those responsible for the resurgence of conservatism in America. More than 100 years ago, he published his Shelburne Essays to explain, among other things, that this kind of Christianity is no longer Christian. Our seminaries and Christian Universities must return to their Biblical foundations. He wrote:
Christianity depends upon revelation [Scripture]. Without revelation [Scripture], the belief of the Christian is a baseless assumption. | Dr. More is making the point that Intellectual stability is grounded in the everlasting validity of transcendent truth (Scripture) and not the shifting values of the moment. | Quite a long time ago, I read H. Richard Niebuhr’s 1952 classic, Christ & Culture. I looked it over again this weekend. | | The third major section is a discussion of academicians within the church who have turned our seminaries into rudderless institutions. They produce rudderless pastors, rudderless churches, and a reimagined Jesus.
That section is called “The Christ of Culture” and describes the seminaries (both then and now) who imagine a Christ of their own making . . . a Christ who mirrors the man-centered culture of the day.
This is what happens when Christianity is disconnected from divine revelation [Scripture]. We produce a Christianity in the image of man. A “Christ-of-Culture” Christian.
Last month, writer Anthony Costello brought Niebuhr’s classic to my attention again in his article titled Woe to You Shepherds, published in the October edition of Touchstone Magazine. | | He discusses Niebuhr’s classic and provides penetrating thoughts on why men of the cloth wander from the epistemological security of Scripture in order to romance the rot of man-made cultural decadence.
We will never recover our nation if we don’t recover both church and academia.
Dr. Everett Piper made this clear when he published his article (below) this weekend in the Washington Times.
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HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS TUESDAY EVENING AT THE OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER!
Doors open 5:30 PM Meeting begins 6:30 PM | | The Chesapeake Event Center at the Oklahoma History Museum was well attended again on October 1 as we provided a packed group of speakers. For those of you not in attendance, we have video segments of each of the speakers at the bottom of this newsletter. | | DR. EVERETT PIPER Sunday, November 2, 2025
CONFESSIONS OF A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE PRESIDENT | | My entire career was dedicated to Christian higher education. For more than 40 years, I served as a dean, vice president, and president of multiple "Christ-centered" institutions. For decades, I extolled the virtues of the biblically centric liberal arts.
Year after year, I rang the bell. Time and again, I told parents that our schools were the last line of defense in a cultural war that was hellbent on destroying their children's hearts, minds, and souls. | | I NO LONGER BELIEVE THIS WHY?
Put simply, it's because dozens upon dozens of Christian colleges, including the ones I served, are now proving they are not what they claim to be. While their pretty four-color brochures tell you one thing, what is taking place on their campuses is, in fact, quite another.
Take for example, Seattle Pacific University a Free Methodist school, where over 70 percent of the faculty recently voted "no confidence" in the school's board of trustees because it failed to repeal a statement that requires all employees to abide by the university's policy on human sexuality; a statement that does nothing more than affirm that "sexual experience is intended [to be] between a man and a woman" and that "the full expression of sexuality" is reserved for the covenant of marriage. | | Yep, you heard that right. Nearly three-quarters of this Christian university's faculty find the biblical definition of marriage to be so objectionable that they actually voted to remove the school's board of trustees over the issue.
Then there is Biola University - a Christian school in the greater Los Angeles area – where the current student handbook states: "As issues connected to sexuality and gender are complex and layered, we will walk with students on an individual basis who identify as transgender or experience dissonance with their biological sex and gender in order to provide helpful support, to arrive at decisions around facilities use, and to offer appropriate accountability..." | | Biola (also known as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles) has also officially sanctioned a student organization called "The Dwelling," which states: "[We are a place] where students who are LGBTQ or who experience same-sex attraction come together for community and support as they walk with Jesus..."
Next, there's Fuller Theological Seminary's queer-affirming group, known as "One Table," that has featured the movie "Milk" on its campus. This is a film that celebrates the gay activist Harvey Milk, who was known, among other things, for having an ongoing sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy; an activity otherwise known as statutory rape. | Then we have Houghton College in upstate New York, whose president, Dr. Shirley Mullen (since retired), proudly participated in a campus vigil bemoaning a group of conservative students who painted an American flag over the top of an image of a gay and lesbian flag on a large boulder on the school's campus. | | But it's not just the morally warped worldview of LGBTQIA+ to which these colleges have sold their souls. In addition to bowing to the gods of the rainbow, Christian universities across the land are stumbling over themselves to add CRT, BLM, and DEI to the alphabet of their politically correct lexicon.
Take North Central University and Bethel University, for example. Both institutions in Minnesota have created George Floyd scholarships on their campuses. | | And there's Calvin University in Michigan and its course on "Faithful Anti-Racism."
And, not to be outdone, we have Indiana Wesleyan University and its 2017 "Day of Courageous Conversations," where all classes were canceled for a day in favor of activities such as a "Privilege Walk" and a "Racial Injustice Bus Tour." | The inconvenient truth is that these examples are not anomalies, but rather just the tip of the iceberg. From the professors claiming the miracles of Jesus (including his death, resurrection, and virgin birth) are "message statements rather than reality statements," to required chapels featuring pro-socialist speakers such as Bart Campolo, who, by the way, has since left Christianity and became a "Humanist Chaplain" at the University of Southern California, the list goes on and on. These schools are simply not good places to send your kids. | | Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 315) once wrote:
Evil apes respectability, and tares do their best to look like wheat… Even the devil transforms himself into an angel of light… We therefore need the grace of God, a sober mind and watchful eyes… so as not to mistake the wolf for the [shepherd] and be ravaged.
I never thought I'd say it, but until the Christian academy repents, you're better off sending your kids to a school run by pagans. At least the predatory professors there do not disguise themselves as your child's counselor, pastor, or priest. | Wolves in sheep's clothing are dangerous, but wolves in shepherds' clothing are downright deadly. | | ________________
Find more Everett Piper here: Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host.
He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).
He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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