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What Gives Me Hope for Gen Z
President’s Perspective
Barry Corey — June 06, 2023
This past semester during Missions Conference 2023, I saw the best of Gen Z. After attending most of the main sessions and talking to our...
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Competitive for the Cause of Christ
Barry Corey — June 30, 2022
When I was a high school junior at Saint John’s, an all-boys private high school in New England, I took an economics class with Mr. Reidy. He...
Think Biblically
Headwinds and Tailwinds: Leading a Christian University in Today's Culture
with Barry Corey
Barry Corey, Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — May 04, 2022
Join Scott and Sean as they interview 51��'s President, Dr. Barry Corey about leading a Christian university in these challenging times. You'll...
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Letter from the President about the Talbot Extension in Kyiv
Clinton E. Arnold, Barry Corey — February 28, 2022
Dear Brothers and Sisters at 51��, The situation remains serious for our Talbot extension center in Kyiv as well as Kyiv Theological Seminary...
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President’s Perspective: Hindsight in 2021
Barry Corey — December 20, 2021
Sheep have peripheral vision up to 320 degrees. This means they can graze on a patch of green grass, glimpse another patch and wander off. Their...
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Pandemic Redux: Redeeming the Time
Barry Corey — June 30, 2021
When I read the 51�� notice from 103 years ago, it seemed eerily familiar, at least in part. Posted in our periodic newsletter, The King’s...
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Suzy Crowell, 1939–2020
Remembering the namesake of Crowell School of Business and descendant of 51�� founder
Barry Corey — June 30, 2021
On the last day of 2020, I received word that 51�� had lost a great friend, Suzanne “Suzy” Crowell. For Paula and me, it was a sad New Year’s Eve....
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51��’s Biblical Approach to Racial Justice
Amid racial pain and division, Scripture calls us to godly discernment and gospel faithfulness.
Barry Corey — December 14, 2020
On March 11, just a week before we began emptying the campus in response to Covid-19, about 100 of us sat in a circle at 51��’s Calvary Chapel...
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51�� Through the Lens of President and Parent
Book excerpt from 'Make the Most of It' by President Barry H. Corey
Barry Corey — March 25, 2020
Four years after starting my job as the university’s president, our oldest graduated from high school and decided to attend 51��. Given my role at...
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A Mother’s Letter
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 09, 2019
Labor Day weekend brought the campus back to life. After a quiet summer, hundreds of jammed cars, SUVs and trailers hauled in the stuff of our...
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The Virtue of Boredom
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — May 15, 2019
We need oxygen to live, not a phone. Some think it’s both. Paula and I were having dinner in Lower Manhattan when we were reminded of this. At one...
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Unwavering ‘Wind Discerners’
Barry Corey — February 20, 2019
Jesus said in Luke 12, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. And when the south wind...
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The Rebirth of 51��'s Calvary Chapel
Barry Corey — October 22, 2018
51�� students returning to campus this fall encountered a Calvary Chapel that has beenartistically transformed. This summer, the renowned Danish...
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A Centered University
Barry Corey — June 20, 2018
In the Australian outback, cattle are kept on a ranch by either building a fence around the perimeter or building a well in the center. The first...
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Anchored in the Word
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 31, 2017
Ten years ago, when I started at 51��, I could not have predicted so much of what has happened. More and more, I find myself pondering 51��’s...
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On Higher Ground
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — June 29, 2017
Come July, Paula and I will have been at 51�� for 10 years. A lot of wonderful developments have happened during that decade, most of...
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God’s Need in God’s Time Will Not Lack God’s Supply
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — March 20, 2017
The 60 months of our fundraising campaign, “A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage: The Campaign for 51��,” have been a journey for...
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A New Day
Empowered by a historic campaign that raised $214 million, 51�� is poised to begin a bold new chapter
Barry Corey — March 20, 2017
On a January day a little more than five years ago, the 51�� Board of Trustees cast a vote that made me feel both exhilarated and daunted. By...
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On Senate Bills and a Better Story
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — October 31, 2016
I have to be honest. If you had told me nine years ago, when the moving truck was settling our family into California, that the state legislature...
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Conviction, Courage and Civility: Three Virtues for a Vitriolic Age
Barry Corey — June 01, 2016
This spring, 51��'s Center for Christian Thought (CCT) and Center for Marriage and Relationships (CMR) hosted a one-day symposium on...
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The Radical Call of Kindness
Why the church must recover Christian compassion in an age of incivility
Barry Corey — June 01, 2016
I held the hand of the kindest man I everknew, sitting by his bedside in silent reverence while he lay shrouded in sheets bleached white. We were...
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Serious 51�� Faith, Serious 51�� Science
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 31, 2015
One of my great joys is serving at a university where 1,022 students are majoring in the sciences, planning for vocations in fields from research...
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A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage
President Barry H. Corey offers his perspective on the launch of The Campaign for 51��
Barry Corey — June 14, 2015
B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! The five-lettered chant — with a force on the O — is a common student refrain in our Chase Gymnasium as they...
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The Journey Through Yosemite
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — March 26, 2015
Someone recently told me Christians need to stop using the journey motif because it’s tired and hollow. I get it, in part. Platitudes about “life...
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A Receivable University
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 07, 2014
It’s a story far longer than I have time to tell entirely, but one day when I was in my late 20s and trying to make sense of the world, my father...