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Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Recycle as an act of worship in preparation for Easter

By Philip Grabowski · Friday, March 27, 2026

As spring starts to arrive, I find it easy to sing praises as my soul thrills to the beauty of God’s creation – sandhill cranes migrating back north, buds pushing up from the soil, planting vegetable seeds in the Randall greenhouse. Creation reflects God’s glory (Psalm 19:1) and testifies to His eternal power and divine nature (Romans 1:20).

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Thank you class of 2025

By Michael Lindsay · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

​​As the weather warms and another academic year draws to a close, my heart is filled with gratitude for the remarkable ways the Lord is at work in and through Taylor. This spring's Commencement marks the end of my fourth year as president and with it, a meaningful milestone. The graduating class of 2025 is special to our family, for we have journeyed together during the Lindsays’ first four years at Taylor. It has been such a joy to walk this road together.

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Wisdom for seniors

By Richard Smith · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why should graduating seniors care about the Old Testament? Any senior graduating from Taylor without an answer to this question ought to ask themselves what has gone wrong to leave them with this yawning lacuna of mind and soul. That might strike you as a nervy thing for me to say. But time is short, you are headed out the door and I am limited to 700 words. For the sake of clarity, allow me to dispense with niceties.

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Student Development faculty net big hugs

By Matthew Renfrow · Wednesday, May 14, 2025

I confess that I’ve felt just a bit of jealousy over the big hugs that my Student Development Faculty colleagues enjoy in one of my most favorite Taylor traditions – the graduation faculty tunnel. I am a (HUGE) “hugger” and while I do get some solid hugs in the tunnel, the unhealthy tendency to compare myself to others creeps in at times. 

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Vote with character

By Tom Jones · Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024

Elections have consequences. But will we be shaped by the consequences, or will we shape them?

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Brave new world?

By Elizabeth Parker · Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024

The release of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot, has shifted the goal posts in education.

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Binding up a nation's wound

By Philip Byers · Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024

It’s election season, so some readers might be wondering: how can Christians faithfully pair their identities as members of the universal church and citizens of a particular nation?

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Embrace the foundational core

By Benjamin Wetzel · Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024

Fifty-four hours. Depending a bit on how you count, that is the absolute minimum number of hours most students take in the foundational core here at Taylor.

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Your 'Kairos' Moment

By Michael Lindsay · Friday, May 17, 2024

If there were one character trait your class has embodied over the last four years, it would be “perseverance.”

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Reflections from a (mostly) former chapel skipper

By Hank Voss · Friday, April 19, 2024

My friend Francis has participated in well over 98,000 chapels. His intentional community in California (St. Andrews Abbey, Los Angeles) takes discipleship seriously. Francis’ participation in chapel five times a day for over 50 years has made him a different kind of human being — one marked by a beautiful, deep peace and joy (Psalm 92:14).

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The eclipse and God’s beautiful creation

By Peter Staritz · Friday, March 22, 2024

In a few short weeks, we will witness one of the most awe-inspiring events we have ever seen. On that day, the moon, a celestial object having roughly the diameter of the United States, will pass directly between us and the sun. In doing so, it will plunge us into shadow.

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Reality of the resurrection

By Ed Meadors · Friday, March 22, 2024

“Why do people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?” (Acts 26:8). The question strikes us today as naïve, just as it must have struck Porcius Festus and Herod Agrippa II in the original context. Paul can’t be serious. For realists, the resurrection is fiction. People think the resurrection’s unbelievable because it is unbelievable!