http://www.summit.org/ en webmaster@summit.org Copyright 2012 2012-05-09T18:07:21+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/the-best-high-school-graduation-gift-ever-summit-semester/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/the-best-high-school-graduation-gift-ever-summit-semester/ The Summit Summer Semester is perfect for high school graduates who could benefit from a seven-week-long shot in the arm before heading to college, as well as for collegians who need to refocus their attention on Christ for this coming fall. Surrounded by the majestic Rocky Mountains, students will read, think, pray, and debate their way through some of the best-loved Christian literature of the 20th century by studying works from the Inklings, which includes C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield. And their guide for this experience is none other than the beloved Summit professor Dr. Michael Bauman who will help make this summer a solid foundation for the rest of their lives. It's like Francis Schaeffer's L'Abri in the Rockies! 2012-05-09T18:07:21+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/the-best-college-graduation-gift-ever-summit-oxford/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/the-best-college-graduation-gift-ever-summit-oxford/ The Summit Oxford Study Centre is an educational program combining the unique worldview approach of Summit Ministries with the academic strengths of Oxford, England. Here is your opportunity to gain profound learning and give your résumé a huge boost as you cultivate scholarly virtues for the glory of God. 2012-05-06T18:08:30+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/bringing-maturity-to-an-immature-culture/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/bringing-maturity-to-an-immature-culture/ At Summit we admonish young Chris­tians to abandon childish ignorance and embrace the responsibility of honorable citizenship. Among the biblical warrants for this is 2 Corinthians 5:19-20 which says, “…in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the mes­sage of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us.” 2012-05-03T18:09:33+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/apologetics-is-making-a-comeback/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/apologetics-is-making-a-comeback/ Our April Journal is coming out soon, and I’m excited about its focus on a resurgence of interest in apologetics – led largely by our Summit faculty. I hope you enjoy the article, but in the meantime there are nine steps you can personally take to help this growing movement gain traction: 2012-04-30T18:10:09+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/chronicling-leftist-lies/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/chronicling-leftist-lies/ Chronicling leftist lies: “98% of Catholic women use contraception”. As you already know, one of the Obamacare mandates is that employers provide free abortion-inducing drugs to their employees. Most people see this as only affecting Catholics, but it affects everyone with a conscience and has been referred to by many of my lawmaker friends as the most blatant attack on religious freedom in living memory. Those who speak out are accused of being “against women’s health.” 2012-03-12T04:27:46+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/as-writer-calls-for-atheist-temple-secularists-gather-in-nations-capital-ci/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/as-writer-calls-for-atheist-temple-secularists-gather-in-nations-capital-ci/ Manitou Springs, Colo.— In the U.S., thousands of atheists and secularists are scheduled to converge on Washington, D.C., on March 24 for the Reason Rally, called the largest gathering of its kind. Experts say atheism is becoming more than simply a denial of God. In the meantime, atheist philosopher and writer Alain de Botton demonstrates this assertive atheistic thinking by proposing to build a 150-foot tower—a “temple to atheism” of sorts—to celebrate a new way of thinking about atheism, as opposed to what he describes as Professor Richard Dawkins’ “aggressive” and “destructive” approach to non-belief in God. 2012-03-01T23:32:47+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/christopher-hitchens-leap-of-faith/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/christopher-hitchens-leap-of-faith/ In his commentary on Christopher Hitchens’ death, John Ransom makes the interesting point that the problem with people like Hitchens is that they make skepticism an end in itself rather than as the means to something. “I believe that the things you do in life to bolster faithfulness; the things you do in life to support belief in anything or even something are much more important, either way, than the things you stand against.” He further points out that our “own self-consciousness…makes belief in a sterile universe without a Creator, an unknowable act of faith” (Townhall.Com, Dec. 17, 2011). 2012-01-31T20:00:17+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/david-noebel-on-christopher-hitchens/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/david-noebel-on-christopher-hitchens/ Christopher Hitchens, one of the “four horsemen” of atheism (the others being Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett), succumbed to cancer just before Christmas. Of the four, Hitchens seems to have been the one Christian philosophers liked the best—he could be mean but he was also quick-witted, and funny. He was honest, too. Before his death he told Mark Hemingway that Dawkins and Harris were frequently irked when he answered “I don’t know” when pressed about what happens after death (The Weekly Standard, December 26, 2011, p. 7). 2012-01-28T20:00:17+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/why-people-resent-tebow-and-why-tebow-doesnt-mind/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/why-people-resent-tebow-and-why-tebow-doesnt-mind/ Whatever else you think about Tim Tebow, he has certainly raised the bar for what it takes to be admired as an NFL player, and as a person. This sort of raising-of-the-bar happens a lot in sports, and in life. Before Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, everyone who was fast enough to approach that record was a hero. Once the record was broken, though, all of those not-quite-fast-enough athletes became losers. Some were resentful, but a handful stepped it up and joined Bannister in this new level of success. Those who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, just faded away. 2012-01-25T20:00:26+00:00 http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/tim-tebow-hero-or-anti-hero/ http://www.summit.org/blogs/the-presidents-desk/tim-tebow-hero-or-anti-hero/ Each year the Grammys offer Americans a peek into the bizarre lives of America’s celebrities. For sheer bizarreness it’s hard to beat Lady Gaga’s arrival at last year’s Grammys in a large egg. During the program she "hatched" and performed a dance number called Born This Way, a celebration of homosexuality. 2012-01-22T17:00:22+00:00