I have listened to Dr. Piper speak with Pat Campbell on Talk Radio 1170 since I moved back to Oklahoma in 2016. I began looking forward to his enlightening and straightforward perspective. I remember some time ago hearing Dr. Piper tell this story about the student upset over 1 Cor. 13: 4-13 and I was befuddled. This is a verse that has inspired and challenged me to strive for perfection (as in the act or process of perfecting.) It is a verse that has comforted me many times and, yes, shamed me, too. So, for that student who was "triggered" I say Good for you. That's a trigger worth pulling. What a great opportunity the student had. I hope, in the long run, it wasn't a wasted lesson.
So it is time for this book. Dr. Piper has done a magnificent service by committing his ideas to print in this book, Not A Daycare, because there are, indeed, devastating consequences of abandoning truth. Frederick Douglass spoke at Hillsdale College over 150 years ago and delivered an address entitled “Popular Error and Unpopular Truth.” It was -- and is -- the type of message that bears repeating; it is iterative, as truths must be. Dr. Piper's book is a collection of iterations necessary for the growth and upbringing of us all. But definitely for students...of all ages.
I join the ranks of those joyful for Dr. Piper saying what needs saying. "It's about time someone said it." But wait. Dr. Piper is really only repeating truth. He is reiterating the truth that is always there. It is error, as Douglas said, that changes. Error conforms to the whims and passions of our minds -- of the times. Error becomes a political movement, a social agenda, a popular striving. But only Truth prevails. Only Truth is constant. From any relative perspective, Truth is. And yet, it is so refreshing to hear it spoken -- aloud and in the written word.
Not A Daycare sounds like new speech when you read it -- refreshing, revitalizing...rebellious, even. Know why? Because Truth looks at you full-faced, right into your eyes and into your heart. Error speaks to your momentary passions. Error is Antifa. Error is "the newest thing." Error changes constantly. But Truth? Truth always was. It is there to be found. Our biggest problem as humans (and it is oh, so human an error) is we keep moving it aside looking for it.
Once you read Not A Daycare, you will want your children to go to Oklahoma Weslyan University. Or, you'll want to go there yourself, or you'll want to work there. It's a beautiful campus (I grew up in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and remember when OKWU was Bartlesville Wesleyan College.) Dr. Piper is doing a bang-up job as President of the University and he did a bang-up job on Not A Day Care. Kudos galore.
Oh, but wait. If you do decide to send your kids to OKWU, or if you decide to go there yourself, remember the caveat in the first part of this book:
If you’re more interested in playing the “hater” card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.
At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before altar calls.
Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place,” but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.
Piper, Dr. Everett. Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth (Kindle Locations 149-162). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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Finally,a book that speaks truth.
I have followed Dr. Piper since his appearance on the O'Reilly Factor a couple of years ago. I was watching that night and found his comments to be spot on. It was refreshing to hear the truth about what is happening on so many college campuses these days. So, when I heard the news of his book, "Not A Day Care", I ordered it from Amazon even before it was released. Colleges and universities used to be the centers for free thought and places where youth could examine different points of view in their trek to maturity. However, today we have indoctrination centers laced with anti-American and anti-faith rhetoric. Nowhere is this more prominent that the complete revision of our American History and the Founding Fathers. This country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles meaning the dignity of human life, the traditional family, a work ethic, common decency, and freedom. In other words, a system of values, laws and ethical code. It is not just a system of theological thought, but a culture of values as seen in one's individual's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Sadly, today this is not being taught in so many of our institutions of higher learning. Instead of these time-tested values the students are taught self-indulgence and an ideology of division.Dr. Piper's book speaks to this problem. He speaks the truth that will make some feel uncomfortable and will cause them to flee to their "safe space". Academic freedom is being jeopardized. Many universities are no longer teaching the "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence, but a self-absorbed, narcissistic ideology of Marxism.Everyone should read this book. I applaud Dr. Piper for his courage to write a book that challenges ideological fascism head on. Like a warrior or he rushes to the battle, not from it. This is the critical thinking that is missing in education today. We are created in the image and likeness of God, therefore the truth is written on every heart. Dr Piper cuts through cognitive dissonance to reveal the Truth.
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