"Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit announced [April 14] a $5 million campaign to assist students and provide COVID-19 emergency relief grants to incoming and returning students this fall." - BJUToday
"There are no plans to sell works in the collection, Page said. The paintings at the Heritage Green location are part of BJU’s permanent collection and will be exhibited in the future in the renovated main museum."
BJU announces "the new financial and operating model" for Unusual Films
"This is the second of a three-part series. ... This forum will explore the present role of evangelicals in politics." BJU
A bad idea is one thing. Flawed execution of a good idea is something else. Thomas Edison is said to have botched the execution of the light-bulb concept about a thousand times before he got it right. Today, we’ve decided that the incandescent light bulb is not such a great idea anymore. But does anyone think that the general concept of converting electrical energy into light is a bad idea?
With changing times and advances in learning and understanding, we’re in constant danger of thinking that all old ideas are bad ideas—and in even greater danger of seeing any flawed execution of an old idea as a failure of the old idea itself. In our hurry to embrace “progress” we often don’t pause and look more carefully at where failure is truly located, and as a result, our piles of obsolete notions include increasing amounts of the wisdom of the ages.
Lately, at least in the West, we’re especially prone to do this with the social sciences. This week’s (or this decade’s) scientific consensus trumps all. And if you’re out of step with it—well, the fact that you’re wrong is self-evident. Because we just don’t do things that way anymore. We know better … until we change our minds again.
