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Darrow Visits Marvin Olasky at the King's College, NY
By Darrow MillerOctober 5, 2009
After reading LifeWork, Marvin Olasky, provost of The King's College, editor-in-chief of the national news magazine World, and a friend for about 25 years from the Villars Consultation on Relief and Development (organized by FHI and Udo Middleman and funded by Fieldstead and Company) welcomed me to stop at the college for an interview next time I was through New York. So I took the opportunity to fly through NY on my way to Lima.
King's is a rebirth of the old and more traditional King's College. It went bankrupt in the 1990's. The board sold the campus in a rural part of NY State and several years later started a new King's College housed in the 15th floor of the Empire State Building in downtown NY. Campus Crusade for Christ was instrumental in helping to get the new college started. They want to establish a college that could engage with this world class city. They have 300+ students and have a goal of 1000 at some point in the future.
After being shown around the "campus" Marvin interviewed me before about 70 students and faculty. The interview was part of a "guest lecture series." I was quite humbled by the list of people who are on the list. Presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and John Beckett, author of Loving Mondays, were among the people who are coming to the college. Marvin uses these interviews both for the students and faculty of KC but also for content for potential articles in World. It would be good to pray that the interview went well enough and Marvin had sufficient interest to write up something in World. Marvin asked me questions for about 40 minutes and then for the next 30 minutes the student body asked questions. There were some excellent questions and a real fun and engaging dialog. My sense is we could have continued the conversation for a couple of hours. After the official interview was over, a number of students came up to continue the conversation. But, as we had luncheon scheduled with a number of faculty, Marvin had to pull me away from the students.
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