
THE DIVINE CONNECTION
At the culmination of the quest lies the acme of our enlightenment, the unending end of an odyssey begun long ago. Here, in a vast new frontier of reason and truth, is our modern Christian academy, no longer shackled to prescriptive notions about the mere transfer of knowledge and instead wholly focused on the transformation of the individual. Here, we embrace the unspoken unity—indeed, the divine connection—between faith and scholarship, declaring once and for all the intrinsic, even symbiotic relationship that each has with one another as we respond to God's highest invitation to explore and discover.
In the open expanse of the third way, we find our unique calling as both Christians and scholars. We embrace the noble study of the arts and sciences, and we are inspirited by our charge to view these virtuous phenomena in profoundly different ways. In this venerable space—one where we refuse to choose, where we are no longer pulled to the edges or extremes, where tension is replaced with thoughtful discourse—the Christian scholar prepares to serve the world, incorporating knowledge acquired through investigation and analysis with the values that enable our most innate desires to learn and discern.
When we are successful in this journey, we will have fulfilled our highest calling as agents and witnesses to God's shalom of human flourishing, offering peace, harmony, wholeness, and justice to not only one another, but to ourselves, to God, and to nature. And in this moment, we will discover what we have known all along: that God is in the midst of us—his fingerprints a part of us—as we seek to bring healing and hope to an often anguished world.