RootsRain

I heard this in a meeting I was in last week:

I got a phone call where someone was complaining that we’ve moved to softbound books instead of hardbound… and they were adamant that hardbound was the way to go. They said they’d switch to Prentice Hall hardbound books instead of BJU Press softbound books even though that would be a huge price increase. So I asked this man “Let me get this straight: you’d rather have hardback books than Christian content?” I expected him to waffle and hem and haw, but he just shot back “Absolutely.”

This is a problem we face fairly often where I work (not the softbound vs. hardbound issue, but the Christian vs. secular textbook issue). Many people—Christian school administrators, in particular—aren’t terribly concerned that Read the rest of this entry »