🌐 The Big God, Small God Divide at Christian Colleges
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February 19, 2026
Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith
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There is a disturbing trend that I have noticed at Christian colleges. It is a trend that has been confirmed to me by other professors with whom I have spoken. Most faith-based schools rightly view their professors as performing a ministry. I think that is how most professors view their jobs as well. However, many schools use this as a justification to pay professors less than they are worth. Full Professors at schools within the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities earn only 65% of the national average for Full Professors.
How many Doctors or Lawyers would be willing to take a 35% pay cut simply because they are Christians?
A professor I know, now retired, told me about how the Board of Trustees at a Christian college he worked for told the faculty they paid them low salaries in order to keep them humble....
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As a general concept, Communion refers to the relationship among members of a tightly-knit group or association of people. In the Greek New Testament, St. Paul often used the word ‘koinonia’ or a word rooted in koine- to refer to this relationship. When St. Jerome translated the New Testament into Latin, he translated it into the word ‘Communio.’ When translated into English, this word often means ‘fellowship,’ ‘sharing,’ ‘participation,’ and ‘communion.’
The concept of communion lies deep at the very heart of central Christian doctrines. It describes the relationship among the persons of the Trinity, God in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; the relationship between God and saved humanity in the Church, chiefly represented in the person of Christ and the sacrament of communion; and the relationship among members of the Church as a sign or mark of authentic fidelity to the teachings of Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit among them....
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