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2020 Election Reader
Your Essential Christian Guide to the 2020 Presidential Election Who to vote for? Why should I even vote? What difference will it make? This short book–you can read it in less than an hour if you are not interrupted–will answer some of your questions, and, most important, suggest that the answers are in the Bible, […]
The Work Ethic, Podcast, Larry Clayton, May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025
Anti-Semitism Today, Spring-Summer, 2025
April 29, 2025
Anti-Semitism, or antagonism and hatred of Jews, is hard for me to understand. Let’s explore this a bit since it is spewing out in places like the campuses of Harvard, Colombia, etc. and it seems to be very popular among segments of our general population. It’s a subject I wrote about not too long ago, […]
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Reclaiming Our Heritage: An Alpha College to Face the Future
April 28, 2025
A new bill—SB 129–was signed into law last winter severely restricting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education in Alabama. The bill prohibits divisive concepts of race, sex, ethnicity, and other factors which undermine the traditional concept that excellence in education is obtained by merit and hard work, by what we do not, […]
Reclaiming Our Heritage: An Alpha College to Face the Future
September 24, 2024
A few months ago we suggested a way to begin reclaiming our heritage of excellence and quality in higher education A new bill—SB 129–was signed into law last winter severely restricting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education in Alabama. The bill basically prohibits divisive concepts of race, sex, ethnicity and other factors […]
Posted in: Alpha College
Abolish Grades, Part 2
September 24, 2024
We left off last week with an admonition on grade inflation. If you are a contributor to grade inflation, at whatever level of university teaching or administration, you have sacrificed your standards of merit and excellence to something else. Read on. The article, by Yascha Mounk, was “College Grades Have Become a Charade. It is […]
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Abolish Grades, Part 1
September 24, 2024
I had a student a few years ago who came to me either before or after class, I forget, but I remember what he asked. “I need an A, Dr. Clayton,” Student X asked. I don’t usually use titles in my little column in this wonderful Northport Gazette, but I just want to be accurate. […]
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Teaching and Learning Catastrophes
June 11, 2024
Like so many of us, I often depend on outside sources to tell me what’s going on in the world today and I was appalled at an article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago. How about “three quarters of graduating high school seniors ‘lack basic proficiency in writing’ and a majority of […]
Posted in: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, History
Antisemitism
May 7, 2024
Recent demonstrations and riots in favor of Palestinians and condemning Jews and Israel prompted me to review some writing I’d done in the past, especially on Anti-Semitism. So, in the cause of history, I rewrote it a bit. I composed it before Oct. 7, 2023, or before the eruption of the latest flare up between […]
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St. Francis and the Crusaders Today
May 2, 2024
St. Francis and the Crusaders Today About a decade ago I taught a course online at UA on the first half of the history of the Christian church. We probed deeply into the Judaic roots of Christianity and arrived all the way at the doorstep of the Reformation in the sixteenth century. The survivors in […]
Podcast, The U. S. Invasion of the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, 1961
May 1, 2024
Podcast, one of four planned, on the U. S. invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, April, 1961.
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Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- Philippians 2:5-8 April 28, 2026“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in […]
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