Dear High School Community,

This semester, I have heard from a number of faculty, students, and parents who thanked me for improved communication this year. While I can’t gauge the sentiments of the entire community, I will say that this has been a regular comment to me so far. I would add that our communication efforts are still far from where I want them to be, but I am very happy to hear that everyone feels well-informed and clear about what is going on in the High School.

One of the great themes in Scripture is God speaking clarity into chaos. At creation, God uses his “word” to speak order into the “formless and void” (Genesis 1:2–3). In the storm, Jesus rebukes the wind and the sea, and calm follows (Mark 4:39). In the face of all evil, and the past, present, and future sin of God’s people, Jesus speaks from the cross with the authority to wash everything clean: “It is finished” (John 19:30). Christian communication, an outgrowth of Christian education, takes this theological foundation very seriously. God is a God of order (1 Corinthians 14:33, 40).  We, however imperfectly, speak truth to a deceived world, clarity into confusion, and life into cultures of death. While keeping a school community clear and informed pales in comparison to the weightiness of God’s powerful word, God’s people take whatever is entrusted to them, however small, and apply the same truth and power to it that God models in the largest contexts (Luke 12:48).