Ideas Matter Archive
OKWU President, Dr. Everett Piper, along with the Institute Director and Fellows have been and are continuing to write and publish on Christian worldview issues.
Entries
ReAL (Newt Gingrich group) cites OKWU President in Press Release
March 2010
PRESS RELEASE: FROM NEWT GINGRICH’S…
Security Risk!?
April 2009
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just…
Political Jargon Aside-
February 2009
Unless one lives under a rock it would be impossible…
OKWU December 2008 Commencement Address
December 2008
December 13, 2008 is your commencement day at Oklahoma Wesleyan…
Facebook Exchange
October 2008
As a university president I was recently engaged in a…
Do you believe in evil?
April 2007
I want to ask you a question. Do you believe…
Joseph Koney and his “Invisible Children”
April 2007
Do you know who Joseph Kony is? If you don’t,…
Do you really want an answer?
March 2007
Over sixty years ago, in The Abolition of Man, C.S.…
Orthodoxy and orthopraxy
March 2007
Note: This article is an edited reprint of a column…
The consequence of a good idea
February 2007
In the year or so that I have been writing…
Values, virtues, and vacuums
February 2007
One of the things I learned long ago in my…
A degree in opinions
January 2007
Sometimes absurdity is the best teacher. Like a firm slap,…
Two roads
January 2007
Two roads diverged in the yellow wood,
And…
Always winter but never Christmas
December 2006
As we come to the end of the year 2006…
A train to somewhere
December 2006
Note: This article is an edited reprint of a column…
Thanksgiving and praise
November 2006
As a conservative I believe there are certain truths that…
Sins of the right and left
November 2006
In his recent book, “The Divine Conspiracy”, Dallas Willard talks…
Playing games
October 2006
In the 1940s Richard Weaver wrote a book called Ideas…
Dorm brothels
September 2006
“That is what happens to those who pluck and eat…
Going home
September 2006
There is a story we all know. It is about…
Segregation vs. Integration
September 2006
“What you have just seen is the difference between those…
The lesson of Blue
August 2006
“Me and you and dog named Boo
Travelin’ and…
Narcissus and Echo
August 2006
You all know the story.
Narcissus was the son of…
Truth and confidence: being a life long learner
July 2006
College for me was a starting point – an intellectual…
Escaping the Underworld
July 2006
“When you try to think out clearly what this sun…
Worldviews have consequences
June 2006
How do we know which arguments are right and which…
Thank you Dan Brown
June 2006
With over 43 million people reading Dan Brown’s Da Vinci…
Ideas have consequences
June 2006
Just a few weeks ago, the Texas Academy of Science…
Why I am a liberal
May 2006
Just last night (May 17, 2006) I was watching television…
Are fish real?
May 2006
Get ready for some twists and turns. This one will…
Cutting the baby in half
April 2006
Many of you know the story.
One day, as a…
I thought of Frankie
April 2006
We all like to share our “war stories” from days…
Orthodoxy and orthopraxy
March 2006
“Do not give dogs sacred things to eat, nor try…
Dualism, multiplicity, relativism . . .
February 2006
I have spent much of my professional life in the…
The island of the dufflepuds
February 2006
“For what stood in the doorway was Aslan himself, the…
Brass more easily mistaken for gold than clay
January 2006
About a year ago a Baptist pastor from Dewey, Oklahoma…
A train to somewhere
January 2006
This past Christmas season I was watching the movie Polar…
Institute Publications
It is an important part of the mission of this Institute to carry these important conversations outside the walls of the academic environment and into the greater marketplace.
One example of this marketplace discussion is Dr. Piper’s biweekly column, Ideas Matter, for the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise. Comments on the contents of the column can be directed to epiper@okwu.edu. Please check back for new postings periodically.