Summit Ministries

A piece of advice: when sitting at the dinner table at Summit, DO NOT mention the fact that there are only five weeks left in our semester. The comment will be met with disapproving frowns and will be, for...

When I first arrived in Pagosa Springs, I did not really have an idea of what I was getting myself into; I had never been to Snow Wolf Lodge, I did not know any other students very well, and I...

This week Dr. Don Williams visited as a guest speaker. He taught us the importance of literature for Christians, why we should care about it, how we should approach it, the different worldviews in literature, and different role models in...

"I don't like this poem, but in a few weeks Dr. Williams will come and interpret it for you. He likes 'Ars Poetica,' so that shows you how smart people can be wrong." –Dr. Bauman "Now that Dr. Bauman...

Last Saturday, we celebrated the beauty of the changing of the seasons with a fall harvest celebration, known at Summit Semester as the Farvest Hall. To start the day, the girls gave all of the guys a special surprise. They...

Today, the most prominent theory on how the world began taught in the classroom is evolution. Although the theory lacks a substantial amount of evidence to defend it and ignores an incredible amount of evidence against it, it remains the...

I am torn over whether to say that I am sad or joyful to have made it through yet another amazing weekend of Summit Semester. We had a blast this past week and the weekend held only more unforgettable experiences....

Every aspect of life here encourages community. Over the past month I have witnessed first hand the beauty and importance of a strong community and what that really looks like. Once the "honeymoon phase" passed, which took only about a...

Church History, English Literature, and Politics comprise only a small portion of what I have been learning here at Summit Semester. Since being here my aspirations and goals of all I learn and want to learn have expanded! Coming...

Yesterday, Wednesday, October 3, all of us departed drastically from the usual schedule, a road trip to the acclaimed village of Ouray ("Little Switzerland"), which we had been gleefully anticipating. Some of us, meaning the guys, were kept in...

Good grief, has a quarter of the semester gone by already? I find it hard to believe that three weeks of the semester have passed. From the Pharisees to Montanus in Christian History, C.S. Lewis' Experiment in Criticism to...