Alexander Loney
Being on the faculty of a school in the evangelical Christian tradition like mine, a residential small liberal arts college in the Midwest, has both its challenges and rewards. The challenges—the expectation of faithfully keeping certain codes of behavior and faith, the demands by students upon one’s time outside the classroom—are perhaps better known. But the rewards are rich and perhaps underappreciated—the deep relationships that come in a community driven by a strong mission, students who are intrinsically motivated to learn, the freedom to pursue scholarship that crosses the boundaries of professional guilds.