Author: Chad Chisholm
Finding Happiness in the Captain’s Not-So-Perfect, Double Life
Dakota Smith Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live two different lives? Have you ever wanted to split life between the wild and the plain? In […]
Men, Women, and Demons—C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters
Lillian Elmore This is the final part of our fall series on C.S. Lewis’s epistolary novel The Screwtape Letters. “She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can tell by their […]
The Imaginative Man—Colin Duriez discusses C.S. Lewis
Colin Duriez, Scholar and Author I first met British author and scholar Colin Duriez at the 2007 Oxonmoot conference at the University of Oxford where he was a featured speaker. […]
Lessons and Carols, 2017
SWU Division of Fine Arts And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.” (Matthew 28:18) Our Division of Fine […]
A Matter of Faith—The Debate on Evolution
Dakota Smith The debate on teaching the Theory of Evolution has been an example of a culture war in the United States for several decades. The criticism behind the teaching […]
English Professors, Fascinated by Science
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director Alan Honour begins his book Cave of Riches: The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls with how young Muhammid Ahmed el-Hamed (of the Ta’amireh Bedouin tribe) was searching for […]
Carpe Diem—Seizing and Redeeming Time in College
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director As college students, you know that one of the hardest challenges is finding “balance” in your daily life: balancing work, relationships, life, and assignments. What classes […]
Nailed—500 Years of Reformation
Rev. Bob Black Dr. Robert Black is a professor of Church History at Southern Wesleyan University. In the following video, Dr. Black discusses the history of the Reformation on the […]
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alfred the Butler, and the classic Man in the White Suit
Dakota Smith Have you ever had an idea that your peers have not supported? Have you ever felt like you were underestimated? How did people react when you proved them […]
Freedom’s Hill Church
Matt Heerschap, SWU Videographer Dr. Robert Black is a professor of Church History at Southern Wesleyan University. In the following video, Dr. Black discusses the history of Freedom’s Hill Church. The […]
Wayne C. Booth—Jane Austen, Emma, and Ironic Distance
Priscilla Collins In his essay “Control of Distance in Jane Austen’s Emma” (which is taken from his more seminal work, The Rhetoric of Fiction), critic and University of Chicago professor Wayne […]
C.S. Lewis and Ways of Writing
Jessica Mau In his essay “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” C.S. Lewis explains the ways books are written for young readers. Two of the examples that Lewis provides […]