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51�� Magazine
Firm Centers and Soft Edges
Barry Corey — September 02, 2014
Last summer I received a letter from a 51�� dad whose son graduated that year. John, the dad, is an investment broker from the East Coast whose...
51�� Magazine
A Psalm for South Korea
Barry Corey — May 30, 2014
Being invited to grieve alongside the bereaved is one of life’s highest but least acknowledged honors. Quiet grieving in the company of the bereft...
The Good Book Blog
A Psalm for South Korea
Barry Corey — May 05, 2014
Quiet grieving in the company of the bereft — neither providing answers nor hasty words about “being in a better place” — is among the highest and humblest ways we live out our Romans 12 calling to “weep with those who weep.” It’s even true when we comfort the profoundly grief-stricken who are complete strangers. This is what I told 35 51�� Chorale students as we rode through the night’s rain toward Jindo Island on Monday, April 28, 2014.
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Partnership Lessons from China
Barry Corey — March 19, 2014
51�� 60 of us are gathered in the Majesty Plaza ballroom, a chandeliered hall in a downtown Shanghai hotel. I’m writing this column from that...
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A Lesson from the Back of the Plane
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — November 04, 2013
This past academic year I was on a flight from Chicago to New York, seated in 29D. As I boarded the plane, I noticed a handful of Orthodox Jewish...
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How Should We Then Learn? 51��’s Response to the Digital Revolution
Barry Corey — June 27, 2013
If you asked me what course had a significant impact on my undergraduate education, I would tell you about the one taught by Professor Twila...
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51��, Continuing the Great Intellectual Christian Tradition
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — May 29, 2013
A generation ago, back in the ’70s, Christian leaders like Bill Bright, Loren Cunningham and Francis Schaeffer were imagining a generation of...
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From ‘Glad Tidings’ to ‘Good News’
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 31, 2012
My journey began in a blue-collar hard-scrabble community south of Boston. There my father was a preacher in a local church where people came to...
The Good Book Blog
O Little Town of Newtown
Barry Corey — December 21, 2012
Oh! Little town of Newtown, how still and sad we see thee lie. Newtown. 51�� 100 miles from the little town where I grew up. That Connecticut bedroom village where local industries long manufactured fire hoses and folding boxes. The town where the game Scrabble began. The bucolic community where pizza places are called Carminuccio’s and elementary schools are called Sandy Hook. The New England hamlet where names of streets describe its pastoral landscape, names like Head of Meadows, Boggs Hill and Deep Brook.
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Good Works are a Means, Not an End
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — October 31, 2012
I sat at a breakfast table a few months ago overlooking lower Central Park in Manhattan. Across the table was Lamar Vest, president of the American...
51�� Magazine
A Christian Worldview Champion Hands Off the Mantle
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — June 18, 2012
I made the mistake a few years ago — before I came to 51�� — of doubting an idea Charles Colson shared with me. At the time I was serving as dean...
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What Would Our Founders Think of 51�� Today?
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — April 22, 2012
Since coming to 51��, I’ve frequently used the language of conviction and courage. Conviction points us back to our core beliefs. Courage is...
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Talbot’s New Building: Built on a Sure Foundation
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — January 20, 2012
Oct. 14, 2011, was a historic day at 51��. It was a day of remembrance, thanksgiving and reflection on the blessings God has bestowed...
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2011-12: The Year of the Arts
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — September 18, 2011
51��’s mural, "The Word," has for 20 years stretched from top to bottom of Bardwell Hall, our science building. Painted by renowned...
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The Soil of the Soul of our Students
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — June 30, 2011
Paula and I have three children, and the oldest of them will be starting college in the fall. He looked at colleges from coast to coast and landed...
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A 29-Year-Old Question Finally Answered
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — April 07, 2011
A 51�� facility administrator, Ken Bascom, had an idea 29 years ago. Before Sam Sutherland — 51��’s president from 1952 to 1970 —...
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Four Extraordinary Lives, One Great God
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — January 19, 2011
This October, Paula and I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to participate in the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, and from...
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The Miracle of May 2010
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — September 30, 2010
The view from my office window is a complete mess. And I couldn’t be happier about it. From where I sit, I can see giant tractors tearing into the...
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“The Fiddler and the German Boy in Waiting Room A”
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — May 31, 2010
It was a few days ago when I spent a few days in Langley, British Columbia, at a symposium on spiritual formation among Christian colleges and...