Standard Essay Questions for Faculty Positions

  1. Pilgrimage: Tell the story in moderate depth of your spiritual, personal, and intellectual growth development to the present. Include persons, events, and ideas that have influenced you. Include your current level of involvement in a local church.
  2. After reading Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, 1995, identify affirmations and any areas of uncertainty and disagreement in some depth.
  3. Describe your philosophy of Christian higher education and your level of commitment to and understanding of the unique aspects of Mennonite higher education. Include your level of commitment to the mission of Hesston College.
  4. Explain how your discipline fits within the emphasis on liberal education for citizens of the 21st century.

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