By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker July 21, 2024 We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states.1 We live in an intense period of division and conflict in American society. Americans are increasingly segregated into blue and red camps, each loathing the other and
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 26, 2024 The demands of leading a school can be relentless. Long days are filled with presentations to prepare and deliver, conferences to attend, parent and staff meetings, conflict management, board and donor meetings, writing reports, project planning, strategic planning and new program development, managing
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker April 07, 2024 I vividly remember my sixteenth Christmas. Like most 16-year-olds of my generation, I could not wait to drive and experience the independence and freedom that owning a car would bestow on me. Because my family was of modest means, I was
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker January 21, 2024 I vividly remember sheepishly walking into Sociology 101 as a pimply-faced freshman. With fear and anticipation, I walked into my first college class, taught by a Harvard-educated professor. What ensued in that classroom changed my life forever. For the first six
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker December 17, 2023 The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Harvard ignited a firestorm after dodging a simple question by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who asked whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate each school’s code of conduct. Liz
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker October 08, 2023 “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” — Warren Buffett The Lesson of the Cave In The Empire Strikes Back, a scene depicts Yoda training Luke Skywalker
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker July 30, 2023 We continue slouching towards Gomorrah. We are well along the road to the moral chaos that is the end of radical individualism and the tyranny that is the goal of radical egalitarianism. Modern liberalism has corrupted our culture across the board. The imperative
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker October 23, 2022 Cruising at thirty thousand feet and intensively absorbed in my work, I was startled by the sudden outburst of fearful crying from a three-year-old girl frantically running down the aisle of the jet. Her brown eyes were wide with fear and
Each summer, I prayerfully consider a new biblical theme with accompanying Bible verses for the upcoming school year. The theme is front and center throughout the year. It shows up on banners, in parent, alumni, and donor communications, and presentations, and is the focus of staff and student devotionals. Recent
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker June 18, 2022 Leadership is a juggling act. Leaders have many balls in the air: emails, phone calls, meetings, events to lead and attend, strategic initiatives and projects to move forward, reports to write, presentations to prepare and deliver, conferences to attend, personnel reviews and other
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker April 03, 2022 We have all been there. We receive a nasty email or read something with which we vehemently disagree. We are unfairly attacked and accused. Our dignity and character are assaulted. Our deeply held values and beliefs are ridiculed and attacked. We feel the
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker February 19, 2022 We live and lead in turbulent times. A pandemic, political conflict, war and threats of war, inflation, the hype machine of cable news where everything is sold as a crisis, social media echo chambers that ignite the flames of tribalism and animosity, the