Everett Piper
Columns by Everett Piper
Why sexual immorality should be repudiated rather than debated
As a college president, I'd argue there are some things that should be confronted, some that should be confessed and some about which we can have a conversation. As a teacher, it is my goal to produce students who are able to distinguish between these three categories. Published March 4, 2018
How Oklahoma Wesleyan University spurned the Obama administration’s ‘guidance letter’ on sexual misc
In 2011, every college and university in the United States received a "guidance letter" from the Obama administration's Department of Education declaring that all colleges and universities across the land, from Brown to Berkeley, were required to immediately amend their policies and procedures for responding to any claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault on their respective campuses. Published February 25, 2018
More laws do not a moral people make
This past Valentine's Day, Nikolas Cruz entered a classroom in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and proceeded to murder 17 people and wound 15 others. Before any meaningful criminal investigation could even begin, our nation's cultural elites rushed to their respective podiums, finding fault and casting aspersions. Scoring political points is the name of the game. Removing personal rights embedded in our Constitution and replacing them with more laws and less freedom seems to be the only way they know to keep score. Published February 18, 2018
How integrity unifies the human race and identity politics divides it
C.S. Lewis told us in "God in the Dock": "Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things." In his publication titled First Things, Richard John Neuhaus warned, "One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism [of second things]." Published February 11, 2018
Cosmopolitan magazine cover reveals everything wrong with the popular culture
Have we completely lost our minds? In a word: Yes. Cosmopolitan Magazine has released its February issue, featuring the most recent transgender poster child Laverne Cox on its cover. There is so much wrong on this one page that it makes one's head spin. Published February 4, 2018
Walking in God’s image
As the president of one of the dozens of universities in the United States that carry the "Wesleyan" name I have often been asked: "What's a Wesleyan?" Likewise, hardly a day goes by where I am not asked what seems to be one of the most seminal questions of our time: How should the church respond to our society's tsunamic shift toward the celebration and acceptance of the broader LGBTQ agenda? Published January 28, 2018
HHS ushers in the Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom, thank God
This past week I was invited to speak in our nation's capital at the Department of Health and Human Services' ceremony announcing its new Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom. Here is what I said. Published January 21, 2018
Oklahoma teacher’s union calls for boycott of Christian college students
The Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs reports that a collective bargaining group representing public schools in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is calling for a boycott of student teachers from the local Christian university. The reason for the proposed shunning? Oklahoma Wesleyan University's president (yours truly) dared to suggest that the bad ideas presently being taught in our nation's schools might, at least in part, be responsible for the bad behavior we are seeing in our national news. Published January 14, 2018
A dialogue with someone on Facebook with opposing views
Piper: It's not about gay or straight, it's about the definition of what it means to be human. Even Gore Vidal said, "there is no more such a thing as a homosexual person than there is a heterosexual person, these are behavioral adjectives." We are not defined by our desires. It's about our behavior. It's not about our being. Published January 7, 2018
Teachers: Don’t buckle to ‘snowflakes’
In C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe," Susan, upon hearing of the great lion from across the Eastern Sea, asks whether Aslan is "safe." Mr. Beaver responds: "Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good.' " Published December 31, 2017
How Christmas changed the world
Christmas Day has come and gone and once again, the headlines of the holy-day season have been awash with stories of the secular intolerance of Christ's mass. Published December 25, 2017
Christmas brings hope even in grim news cycle
In C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," there is a scene where we find the children standing fearful and confused in a land that is frozen and nearly lifeless. A lamppost stands somberly in a windless forest that is blanketed with snow and the few creatures the children do encounter are frightened and paranoid. Published December 17, 2017
Statements from Washington Surgi-Clinic deserve harsh judgment
The Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C. is now on record saying that, for a modest fee, it will perform a late-term abortion on a healthy, viable baby boy or girl. Published December 10, 2017
Why children should not be in schools that teach pabulum
Since the release my book, "Not A Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth," I have been asked over and over again by the likes of everyone from Pat Robertson and Adam Carolla to Glenn Beck, Dennis Prager, Dana Perino and Jim Dobson: "Okay, Dr. Piper, you've identified the problem in our colleges and universities, now what's the solution? Published December 3, 2017
Reports of sexual misconduct should not be a surprise
Another day and yet more and more claims of sexual assault flood the news. Published November 29, 2017
‘Consent’ abolishes responsibility of men to behave like gentlemen
Question: If the woman in the photo of Al Franken (where he's groping her while she sleeps) would have given "consent," then would this be right and good? If morality is really nothing more than mutual "consent" and Sen. Franken could prove that she said this was okay to do while she lay sleeping, he would have nothing — absolutely nothing — to be "ashamed" of. Right? Published November 19, 2017
Gender-neutral society isn’t real
I was recently criticized by Right Wing Watch (an organization that defines itself as a "project of People for the American Way") for supporting Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council's "record on issues including gender identity." Published October 24, 2017
POWER OF PRAYER: Always winter but never Christmas
Mr. and Mrs. Beaver tell the kids that Narnia is under the spell of an evil despot. Published December 30, 2015
POWER OF PRAYER: A prayer for the forgiveness of our nation
Forgive us for what we have taught our children: that evil is good and good is evil; that darkness is light and light is darkness; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. Forgive us for teaching them that left is right and right is wrong, that true is false and falsehood is true. Published December 30, 2015
