OBU Honors Program

09/17/2025

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07/26/2025

Here's our director thinking about Socratic Seminars, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Marlowe, and the purpose of education.

I’m a pain in the neck about classrooms. Like most smaller colleges, classroom space is at a premium at my school, and there is something of a scramble every year, as we work out the class schedules, to find suitable rooms for everyone. Compounding this problem for us recently were both a tornado ...

07/21/2025

What do we say when students (or their parents) worry that taking Honors might be "taking on too much"? This.

07/09/2025

“To write about hope by writing about the worst ecological disaster in American history is a good way to bring yourself face to face with what hope really means in the Christian sense,” reflects Dr. Benjamin Myers, director of OBU’s Honors Program.

The Wall Street Journal just placed his Dust Bowl sonnets among its “Five Best” stories—right alongside The Grapes of Wrath. For students seeking a place where rigorous craft meets living faith, this is what learning at OBU looks like.

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05/27/2025

Read about a new Honors fellowship in the latest edition of our newsletter!

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