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On January 18, Jerry Falwell, Jr. welcomed Donald Trump to Liberty University to speak in the school's chapel. As the college president who wrote the "this is not a daycare" article that received so much national attention recently, I have been asked by the media if I would be next: Will I be inviting Mr. Trump to Oklahoma Wesleyan University to speak in our chapel service? My answer has been simple and brief. No, I will not. In selecting speakers for Oklahoma Wesleyan, party affiliation and political positions do not matter. Personal conduct, public statements, theological integrity and moral consistency...

Just for fun, imagine a gang of disgruntled whites stopping and surrounding let’s say, Jesse Jackson’s car in the middle of a parade route, insisting he address their every complaint about “justice,” while demanding he respond satisfactorily to every question/accusation put to him. Then imagine the media siding with the “protesters,” because reporters could find no reason to criticize a group whose unlawful actions were prompted by racism. Well this is exactly what happened on the University of Missouri campus a few weeks ago, except it was University President Tim Wolfe’s car that was surrounded and stopped during the school’s...

In the face of college students far and wide complaining about emotional “triggers” they see and hear, annexing “safe spaces” where opposing views can’t hurt their feelings and even threatening free speech, Everett Piper is seemingly fed up with it all. The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University began his recent open letter to students with a story it appears he could hardly believe himself. “This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt ‘victimized’ by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13,” Piper explained in his letter...