Over this past weekend (March 27-29), we hosted our Campus Preview Weekend for prospective students and their families. With such weekends in both fall and spring semesters, CPW provides the opportunity for them to get to know us just a bit – to attend classes, stay on residence halls, eat in the Great Hall, meet our faculty and students, and begin to imagine themselves at Covenant.

During a Q&A session with parents, I was asked about the emphasis we place on writing across the curriculum, and I was delighted to be able to respond that writing continues to be a strength of our program. Not only in specifically writing-oriented disciplines like literature and history, but also in business and education and the sciences, written assignments are a consistent feature.

After the session, a student related the story of a friend of his who is enrolled in our pre-engineering dual-degree program with Georgia Tech. Click to continue »

Two views of the future of religion in the world are vying for our favor. Of course this is too simple: There is a well-populated continuum of opinion about what lies ahead, and there are numerous distinctions, both obvious and subtle, among even those perspectives which agree in larger relief.

However, I think it’s possible to discern this general divide: Some foresee the 21^st century as bringing the triumph of secularization, while others anticipate that it will be the “religious century.”

In his recent essay “And the Winner Is…” (The Atlantic, March 2008), Alan Wolfe presents the case for the triumph of secularization. Click to continue »