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I have known a few leaders with integrity and vision: Phillip E. Johnson has both, my Dad has both, Clyde Cook and Barry Corey of Biola University\u00a0are the total package.<\/p>\n

As I turn towards the last quarter of my career, I am disinterested in empire building or those who build empires. The Kingdom does not need in fighting or the disciples quarreling who is to be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. \u201cThe two most powerful words for the future of Christian education are: align and collaborate. That\u2019s precisely what is taking place here,\u201d said President Gregory Alan Thornbury.<\/p>\n

That is the truth.<\/p>\n

As a result, I have dedicated the rest of my career, God helping me, to\u00a0 following the example of our Lord\u00a0in\u00a0chasing the money changers out of the Temple of higher education and helping all of God\u2019s children<\/em> get a classical, Christian, accredited education.<\/p>\n

As a result, I have left \u201cnormal educational\u201d jobs,\u00a0visionless, full of grifters, \u00a0to become President of The Saint Constantine School <\/a>which intends to combine kindergarten through college education.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

For hundreds of years, no Reynolds (we came here in the 1630\u2019s or so) had more than an eighth grade education. We would have liked one, but it was not necessary for us to be one of the backbone families of the Republic. We were at Yorktown and left our mule in the field to fight for Mr. Lincoln, Union, and Liberty. Relatives were at Normandy and Iraq.<\/p>\n

When things changed, and credentials started mattering, my father went to high school, college, graduate school and left the next generation with nothing to do! He did so debt free, because a working dad and a working mom could get my dad through school: debt free. That is the way it should be and that is the way it must be. We united high school with primary school in the fifties and my dad benefited.<\/p>\n

Now, due to changes in technology and a multitude of professors, we can unite undergraduate education with high school. We will stop duplicating effort and save money.<\/p>\n

There are few leaders in Christian higher education with the vision and the integrity to seize the new way of doing education. Greg Thornbury is one such leader. I am delighted to announce that I have accepted the post of Senior Fellow in the Humanities at The King\u2019s College in New York <\/a>City. There we can combine the values of the most important city in the world with the great American city of the twenty-first century, Houston. $\"Saint$ <\/a><\/p>\n

As President of The Saint Constantine School we will bring wisdom, virtue, and joy to higher education. By working with The King\u2019s College I will be partnering with a leader who has integrity.<\/p>\n

Integrity says: I will act for people and not for programs.<\/p>\n

Integrity says: I will do God\u2019s will before my own will: Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done.<\/p>\n

Integrity says: The two most powerful words for the future of Christian education are: align and collaborate. I cannot wait for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"