Arizona Christian University Digital Repository
The Arizona Christian University Digital Repository publishes and preserves the scholarly or creative works of faculty, staff, and students of Arizona Christian University (ACU) as well as digitized content from the ACU Archives and the ACU Library. For questions about submitting items to this repository, contact library@arizonachristian.edu.
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- Faculty, staff, and student contributions to scholarship, creative work, and the discovery of knowledge
- Items representing the history of ACU (formerly Southwestern College (Conservative Baptist) or Southwestern Conservative Baptist Bible College) such as yearbooks, university publications and documents, and photographs
- Reports, briefs, and other publications from Dr. George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at ACU
Recent Submissions
"Lead, Don't Follow" 62nd Commencement Address Arizona Christian University, 3 May 2024
(Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, 2024-05-03) Barna, George
Dr. George Barna's address as the commencement speaker at the 62nd annual commencement program at Arizona Christian University.
In his address, Dr. Barna asserts that ACU is a spiritual bootcamp from which graduates are about to leave after having been trained as spiritual warriors. He discusses the realities of spiritual warfare, and the importance of a biblical worldview as the means by which ACU students will combat the enemy. Students are taught to see the world through the Bible and to strive towards a life lived like Christ Jesus and for Christ Jesus. Barna argues that students must transform and impact the culture around them with a biblical worldview and should not take their worldview from the society around them. He then notes that often those around them, including their friends, can negatively influence their worldview. He charges students to combat the lies a worldview comprised of syncretism propagates with biblical truths that are unerring and to lead those around them, not to follow.
Travis Turner 2024 Commencement Prayer of Dedication
(Arizona Christian University, 2024-05-03)
Image of Travis Turner, Campus Pastor (2021-), giving the prayer of dedication at the 2024 ACU Commencement program on May 3, 2024.
2024 Board of Trustees at May Commencement
(2024-05-03)
Image of the Board of Trustees members who were present at the May 2024 Commencement. From left to right: Mr. Mike Bailey, Mr. Brent Veach, Mr. Thomas Okarma (Board of Trustees Chair), Dr. Jeffrey Green (Vice President of Academic Affairs), President Len Munsil (6th ACU President), Dr. George Barna (Director of Research and Co-Founder of the Cultural Research Center at ACU), Mr. Wayne Mihailov (Board of Trustees Treasurer), Mr. Don King (Board of Trustees Secretary), and Dr. Mark Fuller.
Dr. George Barna 2024 Commencement Address
(Arizona Christian University, 2024-05-03)
Image of Dr. George Barna, Director of Research and Co-Founder of the Cultural Research Center at ACU, during his address at the 2024 commencement program of Arizona Christian University.
Faculty 2024 at Commencement
(Arizona Christian University, 2024-05-03)
Photo of Arizona Christian University's faculty with ACU President Len Munsil, Dr. Jeffrey Green (VP of Academic Affairs), Travis Turner (Campus Pastor), and Tracy Martin (Registrar) during the May 2024 Commencement program.