When Kim S. Phipps was leading the search for a new president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, she called Edward O. Blews Jr. and said, “Ed, this is God, and she is calling you to the C.C.C.U. presidency.”
Her joke, recounted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, seems to have been persuasive, for in January 2013 Mr. Blews assumed the presidency of the council, the major association of evangelical schools, which includes Oral Roberts University, in Oklahoma, and Wheaton College, in Illinois, Billy Graham’s alma mater.
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