Comments on: Ebenezer — A Second Chance http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/ebenezer-a-second-chance/ He has made everything beautiful in His time. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:04:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A Time to Laugh » Blog Archive » Ebenezer — The Chapter http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/ebenezer-a-second-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-68390 A Time to Laugh » Blog Archive » Ebenezer — The Chapter Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:35:03 +0000 http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/24/ebenezer-a-second-chance/#comment-68390 [...] things a little, but it’s okay. . . . I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Marty and I were just talking the other day about you and I said, ‘Does she really belong [...] [...] things a little, but it’s okay. . . . I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Marty and I were just talking the other day about you and I said, ‘Does she really belong [...]

]]> By: Dan Keller http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/ebenezer-a-second-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-64965 Dan Keller Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:30:52 +0000 http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/24/ebenezer-a-second-chance/#comment-64965 In Mark Taylor Dalhouse's book, AN ISLAND IN A LAKE OF FIRE, he suggests that one reason why BJC didn't get accredidation from the Southern Association because of too demanding faculty teaching schedules. A group from FSU came, liked the overall academics, but the faculty schedules and the faculty:student ratio was too far off. By the time BJU moved to TN, the faculty pay schedule had been changed, so accredidation was impossible. Just think how they rewrote their history. In Mark Taylor Dalhouse’s book, AN ISLAND IN A LAKE OF FIRE, he suggests that one reason why BJC didn’t get accredidation from the Southern Association because of too demanding faculty teaching schedules. A group from FSU came, liked the overall academics, but the faculty schedules and the faculty:student ratio was too far off. By the time BJU moved to TN, the faculty pay schedule had been changed, so accredidation was impossible. Just think how they rewrote their history.

]]> By: Becca http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/ebenezer-a-second-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-64964 Becca Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:19:38 +0000 http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/24/ebenezer-a-second-chance/#comment-64964 Can it change? Which, I guess, presupposes another question: Is it worth changing? Can it change?

Which, I guess, presupposes another question: Is it worth changing?

]]> By: cklewis http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/ebenezer-a-second-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-64945 cklewis Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:02:49 +0000 http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/24/ebenezer-a-second-chance/#comment-64945 Well, Dan, it's not that they <i>can't</i> in the sense of that they don't have anything to offer the scholarly community. And it's not that they don't have the desire to assert and document those contributions. It's that publishing is really the result of participating in an academic community. That's hard to do when you're actively discouraged from it and when you're worked to <i>death</i> with your dangerously-packed teaching schedule. I'm just enough of a ding-dong not to realize (in the middle of it) that they really didn't want me to be an academic. They just wanted me to be a speech teacher. From the top, it's a family business over there, not an educational institution. And as I've said before, nearly every conflict I've observed over the years is the result of the admin/staff and the faculty/students pursuing conflicting interests -- economic vs. intellectual. My experience is just a really recent and really vivid example of that. Well, Dan, it’s not that they can’t in the sense of that they don’t have anything to offer the scholarly community. And it’s not that they don’t have the desire to assert and document those contributions.

It’s that publishing is really the result of participating in an academic community. That’s hard to do when you’re actively discouraged from it and when you’re worked to death with your dangerously-packed teaching schedule.

I’m just enough of a ding-dong not to realize (in the middle of it) that they really didn’t want me to be an academic. They just wanted me to be a speech teacher.

From the top, it’s a family business over there, not an educational institution. And as I’ve said before, nearly every conflict I’ve observed over the years is the result of the admin/staff and the faculty/students pursuing conflicting interests — economic vs. intellectual. My experience is just a really recent and really vivid example of that.

]]> By: Dan Keller http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/ebenezer-a-second-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-64944 Dan Keller Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:28:48 +0000 http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/24/ebenezer-a-second-chance/#comment-64944 How many BJU professors actually get published outside of the BJU Press and other fundie press circles? It seems like they really weren't prepared for smart, driven faculty actually getting published outside of their spheres - they probably didn't know what to think - a terrible thing for a fundamentalist. How many BJU professors actually get published outside of the BJU Press and other fundie press circles? It seems like they really weren’t prepared for smart, driven faculty actually getting published outside of their spheres – they probably didn’t know what to think – a terrible thing for a fundamentalist.

]]> By: TulipGirl http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/ebenezer-a-second-chance/comment-page-1/#comment-64935 TulipGirl Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:07:38 +0000 http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2008/02/24/ebenezer-a-second-chance/#comment-64935 We sang "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" in church today. Very fitting this week. Felt like a special gift from God to me. We sang “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” in church today. Very fitting this week. Felt like a special gift from God to me.

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