“The primary objective
of the Church and the
Christian faith is your
confession, not your
self-actualization.”
Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place,” but rather, a
place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about
others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to
a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to
repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than
blame others for everything that’s wrong with them.
This is a place where you will quickly learn that you
need to grow up.
This is not a daycare. This is a university.
Reprinted here by permission. For more information, visit okwu.edu.
Dr. Everett Piper is the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan
University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He is passionate
about providing students with the best opportunities to im-
pact culture, think independently, and build a biblical foun-
dation for their beliefs. Alongside his work as president, Dr.
Piper advocates for cultural change from a Christian world-
view. His commentary on religion, education, and politics
challenges his academic and political peers for what he
calls their fallacious Orwellian duplicity of intolerant tolerance. Dr. Piper is the
author of Why I Am A Liberal and Other Conservative Ideas. He also regularly
speaks on the radio and writes for a number of publications.
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