The Ten Pillars 2030 | HCU Vision and Core Convictions
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The Ten Pillars 2030 | HCU Vision and Core Convictions
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A Christian University and Its Worldview
In the late summer of 1900, there was a man who lived in a thriving city on the Texas shore. People came from far across the ocean to visit this growing city, as it was a rising center for commerce, innovation, and trade.
One day, with no warning—for those were the days before forecasts and radar—the winds became a wild thing, and the sea began to rise. A great storm was coming, and the people were not prepared.
The man and many of his fellow citizens took shelter at the courthouse where his father was a judge, behind the thick granite columns that held up the house of law, and prayed for the best. The rain fell, the flood waters rose, and the wind blew and slammed against the building. But the pillars held.
The thriving coastal city was Galveston; the man was the father of HCU’s founder Stewart Morris; the storm, the Great Galveston hurricane, was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States and was later named “The Storm of the Century.”
Houston Baptist College was founded in 1960, and today you can see ten of those same granite columns at the center of the HCU campus, a gift from the survivor’s son. Given in the fall of 1969 at the height of the Cold War and cultural upheaval in the United States, they are more than merely relics of the past. They are a constant reminder that our ability to weather fierce storms depends upon solid foundations.
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Universities in the Midst of the Whirlwind
Scripture and a Christian Worldview
The Core Convictions of HCU
Pillar I: God, the Creator of a Good and Knowable World
Pillar II: A Plan of Restoration
Pillar III: The Importance of Human Agency
Pillar IV: A Renewed People
Pillar V: A Mandate to Understand the World
Pillar VI: Learning and Teaching as Discipleship
Pillar VII: Life, Humanness, Gender and Marriage
Pillar VIII: Governmental Institutions
Pillar IX: The Christian University
Pillar X: The Mystery of Unity in Christ
Epilogue
Epilogue: Historical Context
Start Reading:
Universities in the Midst of the Whirlwind
Download The Ten Pillars 2030
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Some phrases and themes borrowed from “(2008) The Ten Pillars: Faith and Reason in a Great City,” Houston Christian University, amended August 2016, https://hc.edu/about-hcu/the-ten-pillars/.
The Ten Pillars 2030 was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees on September 21, 2021.
About HCU
See also…
The Ten Pillars 2030: The Core Convictions of HCU
The Ten Pillars 2030: Epilogue
The Five Imperatives - Institutional Strategic Plan
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A Christian University and Its Worldview
In the late summer of 1900, there was a man who lived in a thriving city on the Texas shore. People came from far across the ocean to visit this growing city, as it was a rising center for commerce, innovation, and trade.
One day, with no warning—for those were the days before forecasts and radar—the winds became a wild thing, and the sea began to rise. A great storm was coming, and the people were not prepared.
The man and many of his fellow citizens took shelter at the courthouse where his father was a judge, behind the thick granite columns that held up the house of law, and prayed for the best. The rain fell, the flood waters rose, and the wind blew and slammed against the building. But the pillars held.
The thriving coastal city was Galveston; the man was the father of HCU’s founder Stewart Morris; the storm, the Great Galveston hurricane, was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States and was later named “The Storm of the Century.”
Houston Baptist College was founded in 1960, and today you can see ten of those same granite columns at the center of the HCU campus, a gift from the survivor’s son. Given in the fall of 1969 at the height of the Cold War and cultural upheaval in the United States, they are more than merely relics of the past. They are a constant reminder that our ability to weather fierce storms depends upon solid foundations.
[i]
Universities in the Midst of the Whirlwind
Scripture and a Christian Worldview
The Core Convictions of HCU
Pillar I: God, the Creator of a Good and Knowable World
Pillar II: A Plan of Restoration
Pillar III: The Importance of Human Agency
Pillar IV: A Renewed People
Pillar V: A Mandate to Understand the World
Pillar VI: Learning and Teaching as Discipleship
Pillar VII: Life, Humanness, Gender and Marriage
Pillar VIII: Governmental Institutions
Pillar IX: The Christian University
Pillar X: The Mystery of Unity in Christ
Epilogue
Epilogue: Historical Context
Start Reading:
Universities in the Midst of the Whirlwind
Download The Ten Pillars 2030
[i]
Some phrases and themes borrowed from “(2008) The Ten Pillars: Faith and Reason in a Great City,” Houston Christian University, amended August 2016, https://hc.edu/about-hcu/the-ten-pillars/.
The Ten Pillars 2030 was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees on September 21, 2021.
About HCU
See also…
The Ten Pillars 2030: The Core Convictions of HCU
The Ten Pillars 2030: Epilogue
The Five Imperatives - Institutional Strategic Plan