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COMMENTARY: University president rebukes ‘self-absorbed, narcissistic’ students

December 2, 2015

By Todd Starnes, Fox News

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (Christian Examiner) — A chapel sermon on love left a student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University feeling “offended” and “victimized.”

But instead of capitulating to the offended young scholar, OWU President Everett Piper pushed back with a blistering rebuke of what he called “self-absorbed and narcissistic” students.

“This is not a day care. This is a university,” he wrote in a blog that has since gone viral.

Back home in Tennessee, we call that a “Come to Jesus” moment.

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APOLOGETICS 101 (Part 10): Evidence for Christ

By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor ALEXANDRIA, La. (LBM) – In the last dozen years or so, there has been a slight uptick of attacks on the his­torical ex­istence of Jesus by a very small circle of “Jesus Myth” theorists. However, overwhelm­ingly, historians and New Testament researchers alike … Read More

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