Glen Robinson One of the first exercises I had the students in my Narrative Writing class do this semester is write about their greatest...

Chelsey Evans Like most normal college students, the last few weeks have found me counting down the days until I get to go home for the...

Eric Anderson Sixty-two is nobody’s landmark year. Indeed as I mark this particular birthday, I tell myself that I am not anywhere near...

Despite his struggles as a student, Dr. Renard Doneskey is a professor of English at Southwestern Adventist University. I had trouble in...

Amber Ellis Last year in the fall there was a large tree growing next to the road. It was leaning slightly to one side with beautiful red...

Tiffany Collier It is interesting to see the change in speech as it spans the generations. Though it’s the same language, words tend to...

Eric Anderson Here’s an embarrassing admission. Though I am a scholar of nineteenth-century America, with a special interest in the era...

Sheralee Thomas Even though I believe that successful teaching doesn’t depend on technology, the appropriate use of it can enhance the...

Glen Robinson I was upset. I was mad. I felt as if I had been taken advantage of. Ever since the iPad had come out, I had wanted one. But...

Eric Anderson Thomas Jefferson put that wonderful phrase “the pursuit of happiness” into the Declaration of Independence. Though both the...

Eric Anderson Kelsey Workman wants to know what I will be doing ten years from now. That’s the assignment the editor of Mizpah,...

Glen Robinson Tonight I got to watch the movie, “The Razor’s Edge,” based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of two...

Glen Robinson The first inkling I had that I might be interested in teaching came when I was studying for my master’s degree. I got the...

Glen Robinson A few days ago I was sitting in faculty meeting, where our University President Eric Anderson was talking about a session...

Eric Anderson I am sitting in a hotel room in Orlando as I write this. There are wires all over the desk and my laptop computer, my...

Glen Robinson I got home last night late, burdened down with worries. I stopped by the mailbox and grabbed the handful of bills there,...

Glen Robinson One of the things I notice about getting older is how fast the months on the calendar flip by. For instance, it seems like...

Eric Anderson There is an art to complaining—at least if you want people to listen to you or you want to change their behavior. I...

Eric Anderson My parents may have overdone it. They never “talked in front of the children” about pastors, teachers, or errant family...

Glen Robinson I consider myself a pretty easygoing guy. Ask my students–at least those who like me–and they will pretty much agree. (At...