Dust, Thrones, and Hallelujahs | Episode 258

Psalm 113 is a reminder that God is both higher than we can imagine and closer than we expect. In this episode, Barry discusses the Exodus, God’s humility, and why He willingly zooms in on our everyday struggles—even when He has to use the cosmic equivalent of a...

Degrees of Learning: Part 3 | Episode 257

What do David, Elijah, Jonah, John the Baptist, and a small college have in common? Barry finishes this series by exploring the idea of “skewed vectors”—people and institutions that point in a different direction than the culture around them—including...

Degrees of Learning: Part 2 | Episode 256

In part 2 of our series on higher education, Barry asks what happens when the university starts losing some of the historic pillars that once made it a university: freedom of speech, intellectual freedom in the classroom, and independence in the boardroom. Somewhere...

Degrees of Learning: Part 1 | Episode 255

Barry starts a series and challenges us to think about learning. Higher education often finds itself squeezed between workforce expectations and deeper human formation. As culture increasingly measures college by return on investment alone, what might be lost when the...