Category Archives: Volume 2 Issue 2

Introducing the RENEWANATION Legacy Society: What is the Legacy Society you ask? It is a group of individuals who have named RENEWANATION as a beneficiary of their estate. This can be as simple as a bequest in a will or as complex as a charitable remainder trust. All are gifts that will be fully realized [...]

The word baccalaureate can mean two things: the degree of bachelor conferred on graduates or the farewell address delivered to a graduating class by a respected person. The baccalaureate service seems to have had its birth in a 1432 Oxford University statute, which required each bachelor to deliver a sermon in Latin as part of [...]

Richard Kiser grew up wanting to play guitar like his hero, Chet Atkins. Most of us have not realized the lofty dreams that we had as a child. Richard Kiser has. Since he was 13 years old, Kiser has been picking away, teaching himself to play like Atkins. And for the past 11 years, he [...]

Editor’s note: Dr. Carlos Campo is the President-elect of Regent University; he will assume this role effective August 2010. Dr. Campo is an Advisory Board member for RENEWANATION. He, and the university, have been strong supporters of RENEWANATION. Regent, located in Virginia Beach, Va., is one of the nation’s academic centers for Christian thought and [...]

The images rest clearly on the pages of my mind. With one hand I’m reaching back to scrapbook them. With the other hand I’m reaching out to gather more. It’s the click of the shutter, the simple flash of light – invariably, I blink. The scene has faded, so quickly changed. The years have gone [...]

If ever we begin to doubt the importance of our children receiving an education based on a Christian worldview, or if we bemoan the great effort that must be made to provide that education tuition-free – we might want to review the words of Dr. Francis Schaeffer, taken from his Christian Manifesto: The basic problem [...]

While recently thinking on the generational transfer of faith, I was drawn to a study of the early Patriarchs of Israel: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. A study of their lives and faith witnesses strange parallels to our lives as Christians today. Let me share just a few thoughts for your consideration. Abraham is known as [...]

As I have been traveling around the country meeting with new schools and individuals who are interested in RENEWANATION, I have been asking a simple question: “What is the main difference between a Christian school and a public or non-Christian school?” The answers have been interesting. I’ve been asking this question because the responses to [...]