91Porn business students were finalists in the 2025 America250PA Direct Effect Innovation Challenge (DEIC). The DEIC is a multi-round competition that challenges students from Pennsylvania’s postsecondary institutions “to design and develop integrated marketing campaigns that explore solutions to real-life challenges and questions.”

The 2025 DEIC consisted of three rounds, the final round held in person at the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg, PA, in October 2025. 91Porn was one of five colleges invited to the final round. Faculty member Janelle Curtis-Beaman accompanied students Philip Oo, Matthew Mika, Colin O’Brien, and JiEun Oh to Harrisburg to present their campaign.

This year’s theme was “Miles of Impact: America’s First Superhighway.” Students were challenged to “design and pitch original integrated marketing campaigns that bring the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s story to life.” 91Porn students presented their campaign, “Where did you come from, where did you go?” to celebrate 85 years of the Turnpike connecting Pennsylvanians while looking forward to the future of travel. They pitched a user-generated marketing campaign that would employ a statewide scavenger hunt that would encourage users to share experiences that promote connection, heritage, and progress.

91Porn is proud to offer opportunities for experiential learning like this, giving students the opportunity to apply what they learn in the classroom in tactile ways that bolster their resume and give them confidence as they enter the job market. 

There is a growing contingent of 91Porn graduates for whom “Cairn Special” immediately evokes involving all five senses. It’s requested like a secret menu item with a flash of a Cairn student ID. Buy a large drink and a large fry, and get an original sandwich or eight-count nugget for free. Today’s students know the schedule: Monday at Oxford Valley. Tuesday at Langhorne. Thursday at Neshaminy.

The Cairn Special remains the cheapest meal a college student can buy off campus. And while that is attractive, it is not what keeps students coming back. The food is good, and it serves as the foundation for something even better. A Chick-fil-A booth has served as a mainstay for many Cairn students’ community building and cheap first dates. And for a select few, it introduced them to a future career as a Chick-fil-A owner-operator.

Chick-fil-A’s franchisee selection process is extremely competitive. It receives an average of 40,000 applications per year and from that accepts little more than 100, substantiating the claim that it is easier to get into Harvard than it is to be selected to be a Chick-fil-A operator. Despite these slim chances, 91Porn alumni still represent among the operator ranks. 2026 includes the opening of the fifth owned and operated restaurant by a 91Porn alumnus.

These four men who have been selected to lead come from various backgrounds and took vastly different career paths toward ownership. The common thread? Their 91Porn experience was a pivotal moment on their trajectory to Chick-fil-A ownership—from business degrees and peer relationships to introducing them to their very first chicken sandwich.

Alex Crawford ’17/G’17
Rochester, NY

The Fall of 2013 is when Alex began to study Bible and business at 91Porn. It’s also when he had his first Chick-fil-A sandwich. Chick-fil-A was a staple of his Cairn experience. While he was inspired by the culture (and the food!), he did not take a direct path to franchising. Alex interned with a local Geico office in his final semester at Cairn. He was then invited to join their Emerging Leaders program after graduation. This began a career that would require his family to move several times. Alex and his wife, Lindsey (McCulloch) ’17, moved five times as Alex moved up the Geico ranks. Their family eventually settled in Buffalo, NY, where Alex sat at the helm of the corporation’s customer service.

Alex is a lifelong New Yorker hailing from Long Island, but despite being back in his home state, the freezing temperatures of Western New York were a significant adjustment. The Crawfords did, how ever, quickly warm up to and fall in love with the people and culture of the area. Instead of seeing Buffalo as a transplant location for Alex’s career, they saw it as a place where they wanted to plant deep roots for their family.

While Alex wanted to stay in Western New York long term, that did not mean he wanted to stay with the corporation that originally brought him there. He enjoyed his work at Geico, but he ultimately decided to pursue a dream he had considered for several years: to own and operate a Chick-fil-A. He saw this career path as “the clearest alignment of my MBA and Bible degrees.”

Deciding to apply was just the start. Over the course of two and half years, Alex participated in several phone interviews; flew to Chick-fil-A headquarters four times for in-person meetings; and participated in a stress test, where he was thrown into a Chick-fil-A during the lunch rush to see how he would react and adapt. Chick-fil-A has high standards for the character of their operators, so extensive interviews with applicant references are central to the selection process. Among his professional references were Dave Heffernan, the owner of two of Cairn’s local Chick-fil-As, and Dr. Tony Hurst, part-time faculty member at Cairn.

Many operator-hopefuls work full-time at a Chick-fil-A location for years before submitting a franchisee application. Alex was not in that position, but he understood the advantage of direct team member experience. In the midst of interviewing, he decided to get a part-time job at a local Chick-fil-A. He worked one, eight-hour shift before he got the call to open a store of his own.

Alex is part of the 20% of Chick-fil-A operators who were selected outside of the CFA leadership development program. This minority position has several somewhat obvious challenges: He was selected to be an operator with out an intimate knowledge of every part of the menu, without the experiences of running a shift during a peak mealtime or navigating the challenges of being short-staffed. But at the same time, his experiences at Geico translate directly to some of the most important qualities of any Chick-fil-A operator: excelling in customer service, leading by serving, and using data-driven approaches to innovate and adapt to challenges. And since he
did work one shift, he already had a name tag.

Chick-fil-A Citygate opened in Rochester, NY, on February 5, 2026. The business of selling chicken and waffle fries is still brand new, but his seasoned leadership has him well-positioned to lead his team to serve his community well.

Brad Burkholder WWC’06/’09
Harrisburg, PA

When Brad graduated high school, he decided to leave his home in Lebanon, PA, to commit to a year at Wisconsin Wilderness Campus. This year of studying the Bible in the great outdoors was what Brad describes as “the best year of my life,” and it set him on a trajectory that would give him a career and the opportunity to return to his Central PA roots.

Upon finishing his year at WWC, Brad chose to continue his studies on the main campus as a business major. It was here in Langhorne that he first became acquainted with Chick-fil-A. In his undergrad years, he attended three Chick-fil-A grand openings. These events combined two of his favorite things: camping out in a tent, and free food.

The hard-earned free meal coupons on top of the Cairn Special student discount meant that Brad had every reason to spend an above-average amount of time at Chick-fil-A Oxford Valley Road. Through these visits, he built a relationship with the store’s owner, Dave Heffernan. Seeing that Brad was a business major, Dave suggested the obvious: Brad should pursue a career with Chick-fil-A. Brad was not interested in that: “I said, ‘I’m not doing fast food.’ I just like eating it.”

This opposition did not last more than a few months after graduation. The summer after he graduated, Brad was ready to get married and needed a job. Dave connected him with a new operator at Chick-fil-A Exeter in Reading, PA. It was in this restaurant that he began to truly see Chick-fil-A as more than “fast food.” The turning point was a guest interaction with a grandfather and his grandson:

“He said, ‘Can you tell my grandson about the story of Chick-fil-A? Because it’s such an amazing story.’ So, I shared the history and core values of all Chick-fil-A restaurants. . . . That’s when I realized this is a different company. This isn’t just some fast food career. There’s more to it.”

It was after this interaction that Brad “locked in,” studying CFA training videos after late-night closing shifts and personally committing to being the best employee he could be. His operator noticed this shift and—like Dave did just a couple of years before him—he encouraged Brad to pursue a long-term career with the company. This time, Brad was ready to heed that advice. After 1.5 years at Chick-fil-A Exeter, Brad was selected to be the interim manager of the Chick-fil-A in the Berkshire Mall. A year later, he became its operator at just 25 years old.

Brad is quick to share that his time at the mall wasn’t glamorous. The Berkshire Mall location was one of the lowest volume restaurants in the entire chain. What this location did not offer in profits, it offered in what money can’t buy: a chance to be humbled at a young age, space to make mistakes, and an acute awareness that he was in the right career. It also offered the opportunity to work near his hometown, a non-negotiable for his growing family. If he were ever to leave the mall, it would be without uprooting his family’s life in Central PA. Four years passed. Then God opened a new door: Brad was selected to operate a new Chick-fil-A location in Harrisburg, just 20 minutes from his childhood home.

Brad celebrated ten years at Chick-fil-A Lindle Road in March 2026. Looking back over the past decade, one of the highlights has been the freedom he has to dynamically integrate his faith into his work. He has led devotionals in board meetings, prayed with his staff, and hosted Bible studies in his restaurant. “If I were to create my own restaurant or business, I would build it on the same values as Chick-fil-A. I am passionate about Chick-fil-A because they align with my values and beliefs. That’s how I know I’m in the right place.”

Josh Maxwell ’06/G’12’14 and Luke Trader ’10
Egg Harbor Twp, NJ and Christiana, DE

By the time Josh graduated high school, he had been living out of his car for nearly two years. He left home at 16 because of his father’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. So, when he arrived at Cairn to begin the youth and family ministries program, he found a home—both physically on campus and in the relationships he built with Dr. Matt McAlack and his future wife, Corrie. It was at Cairn that he also built a friendship with classmate Luke Trader ’10, who would later be the one to bring him into a career at Chick-fil-A.

Josh and Luke first met on a plane to Germany. They were seated next to each other on the initial flight to the University-sponsored Martin Luther tour over spring break in 2005. Luke was a full-time youth pastor completing his degree one course at a time, so their paths did not cross much on campus before or after this trip. But the friendship built on this trip would continue to grow through the years that Josh volunteered in Luke’s youth ministry.

A few years after graduation, Josh and Corrie were married and serving at a church in Nevada. It was there Josh decided that full-time vocational ministry was not where he wanted to be, but he didn’t know exactly what he should do instead. He moved his family to New Jersey, to be near Corrie’s family and figure out what to do next. That’s when Luke offered him the opportunity to work with him again, this time at Chick-fil-A.

Luke had recently left full-time ministry and was working for Chick-fil-A Corporate, serving as an interim manager at the Quaker Bridge Mall location. When Josh told him that he moved into the area and was looking for work, Luke offered him a $10/hour team member position, which Josh quickly accepted. Several months later, Luke transferred to another mall location in Wilmington, DE, and he invited Josh to come with him. That offer was much harder to say yes to, but he still accepted:

“I was driving an hour and 20 minutes each way to work in my 1992 Ford Explorer,” said Josh. “I was working 60, 70, 80–hour weeks, but I didn’t feel I was competitive enough to become an owner/operator.”

To bolster his resume, he returned to school full-time. He transferred to a restaurant in Delran, NJ, and used the time he saved on his commute to earn an MBA degree from Cairn, graduating in 2014. Degree in hand, he felt prepared to enter the candidate pool. The following year, he accepted the offer to become the owner/operator of a Chick-fil-A in Jackson, TN.

Josh operated Chick-fil-A Old Hickory Mall for three years. In his first year, he earned the regional Rookie of the Year designation, Symbol of Success, and Champions Club—internal awards for Chick-fil-A Operators who hit certain sales and profit quotas year over year. In 2018, he returned to New Jersey to take over as Operator of Chick-fil-A Egg Harbor Township. As for Luke, he became the Operator of Chick-fil-A Christiana in 2016 and, as of April 2025, Chick-fil-A University Plaza in Newark, DE.

You can look at Josh and Luke’s stories and see two youth pastors that left the ministry. In a sense that’s true. But if you think that means they are no longer doing ministry, you’d be mistaken. Service is at the center of Chick-fil-A’s culture; they call it “second-mile service,” echoing Jesus’ call from the Sermon on the Mount. This happens every day, all day between Chick-fil-A team members and guests. But it has the potential for even more impact when the operator goes the extra mile for his employees:

“We want to have a positive influence on all guests who come through the drive-thru—which is only two to three minutes a visit,” said Josh. “But as an operator, I have six to eight hours a day, six days a week where I can make an impact on my staff.”

Both Josh and Luke have been very successful over the 10+ years that they have operated their restaurants. It is the result of hard work and a commitment to excellence. While this has sometimes been celebrated with accolades, it isn’t what is most important:

“It’s not about who has the most sales and who can be the best. It’s better to ask the questions, ‘How are we serving people, and how are we serving God?’ It’s an awesome opportunity to be a part of a business that asks those questions and to be able answer them faithfully.”

Over the weekend of May 15–17, 2026, 91Porn hosted its annual JAM weekend (Junior High Adventures in Ministry), a summer evangelism event run by Dr. Matt McAlack, professor and director of the youth and family ministry program at Cairn, in conjunction with Child Evangelism Fellowship.

Since 1994, JAM has equipped teenagers to share the good news of Jesus and given them an opportunity to actually do it. This year, 310 students and leaders from 17 churches participated. When the teen groups arrived Friday evening, they were led in a time of worship and taught how to share the gospel with others. On Saturday, over 240 children flooded the campus for Kids’ Day. Each child was paired with a teen “buddy,” and together they enjoyed lunch, games, a petting zoo, inflatables, crafts, music, puppets, Bingo, and more. At the end of the day, each teen personally shared the message of Jesus one-on-one with a child. Many children chose to put their faith in Christ after these conversations.

This year’s theme was “Unshakeable Hope.” In a world full of uncertainty, today’s teens are craving something real. The messages of the weekend, given by alum Eddie Jurimas ’14, centered on the reliable truth of the gospel and the hope we can have in Jesus Christ. The teens not only needed this message, they were eager to share it with others:

“Some people sell teenagers short. They may see future potential, but don’t realize how powerful their influence can be right now.�� From the beginning moments of JAM, the teens were very engaged in the gospel training and excited to share the message with their buddy the following day. On Sunday morning, over 25 teens stood to share their testimonies and give glory to God.”

The space for youth groups is already full for 2027, but if you want your children’s ministry group to participate in next year’s JAM weekend, you can register today at .��

“To have a heart for the nations, one must first have a heart for the lost.”

This is what Kevin King ’90 shared with me, as he sat next to his wife, J*, in the office of their Brownstone apartment building in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is a singular sentence that serves as an effective summary of what they shared over the two interviews I had with them. Among the whos, whats, whys, wheres, and hows that the Kings shared regarding International Project’s 30-year history, it is evident that “a heart for the lost” has driven every decision.

A Campus Love Story

Kevin and J met as students at 91Porn in 1989 while running on the cross country team. J, a freshman, chose to study at Cairn because she had desired to be a missionary since she was a young teen. Kevin was a more recent believer, and in his senior year, he was looking to attend seminary after graduation to become a pastor. The two began dating shortly before Kevin graduated and continued while he earned his Master of Divinity from Missio Seminary in Philadelphia. Over the course of those three years of biblical study, it became clear: Kevin and J were both called to be full-time missionaries, and they were called to do so together. The day after J’s last class at the University, they were married on campus in a pond-side ceremony off of Pine street—the last ceremony to be held there, as construction of the president’s residence began immediately after.

An Unmet Need and a Timely Mission

Kevin and J both had a strong desire to be missionaries among an unreached people group. They began praying and asking God where he would have them serve in the 10/40 window. It was during this same time that a friend invited them to see the ministry potential in New York City. What they found shocked them: Over 90,000 international students, 100,000 West African Muslims in one neighborhood, 80,000 Bangladeshi Muslims in another neighborhood, and 60,000 Arab Muslims in yet another neighborhood. Rather than living among one unreached people group across the ocean, the Kings realized the potential to live among the dozens of unreached people groups that were already converging in NYC. While, thankfully, many missions organizations have recognized and are participating in this diaspora ministry in the US, that was not the case in the early ’90s. The Kings had a vision for a new kind of missions that didn’t follow the typical playbook of crossing saltwater. Rather than moving halfway across the world to establish themselves in an entirely new culture, the Kings wanted to minister to the stranger next door. To be full-time financially supported missionaries who stayed stateside was nearly unheard of, which made it difficult to find an organization to support their work. They prayed and patiently waited for God to bring them to an organization that would support them—and that’s exactly what he did. The Kings found stateside missionary support from WorldTeam, giving them the opportunity to lay the foundation for what would become International Project.

For the first 10 years, they focused their efforts on campus ministry. English conversation groups, discovery Bible studies, and invitations to leave cafeteria food behind in exchange for a home-cooked meal were the order of the day. They built relationships with international students, shared the gospel, and discipled those who could then return home to share that same message with their families and communities. They were amazed at what God was doing. Over a five-year period, they saw seven house churches start in other countries as students returned home to make disciples.

As they continued to build relationships and establish themselves in the city, they expanded their focus to more broadly cover diaspora, including international students but also immigrants, refugees, and diplomats. Their vision with immigrants and refugees was the same as that on campus: To see the gospel spread through these new diaspora believers and see the gospel carried through relational lines to start churches in closed countries. Through International Project teams, they have seen churches begin in Iran, West Africa, and Bangladesh.

A Sending Agency of Their Very Own

For years, Kevin and J were International Project—two supported missionaries with a heart for internationals living in New York City. They were eager to add more missionaries to their team, but that process was slow-going. They started to host missionary trainings while they waited for full-time team members. The Equip Missionary Training Program, a one-year program focused on training cross-cultural church planters to start simple multiplying churches, is something they began in 2010 and continue to do today. Missions organizations from all over the country would send their new missionaries to the Kings for training—but then they would leave, continuing on their journey to do missions across the globe. The Kings came to the realization that as long as they were missionaries sent by a larger agency, they would never have the focused support they needed for their unique missions strategy of reaching diaspora communities in the US. They needed all of the resources “in house” to recruit, train, and retain a team of missionaries committed to their same mission.

In 2012, International Project officially became a sending organization. This move brought renewed focus to their diaspora ministry and streamlined their ability to serve these communities in the ways in which they felt the Lord leading.

This decision opened the door for incredible opportunity and growth, but it also came with considerable challenges. Training, mobilization, HR, finances, and pastoral care are just a few of the time-consuming and weighty responsibilities that must smoothly run behind the scenes in order for missionaries to be well-supported to do their jobs well. The Kings’ schedules were already full with the ground work of missions, so in order to succeed as an independent ministry, they needed a lot more help. But where the workload increased, God provided the workers. International Project grew from just Kevin and J to about 40 missionaries in an eight-year period. In addition to these missionary workers, they have a ten-person operations and mobilization team to support this work.

Opportunities to Expand

Campus ministry is still a significant part of International Project’s strategic plan to reach unreached people groups in NYC and, by extension, around the world. They have an average of 15 different discovery Bible studies every week across two college campuses. But the campus ministry team, led by J, is only one of eight teams that International Project now sends out. They have five teams in New York City: the campus team, two teams reaching Arabs, a team reaching South Asian Muslims, and a team reaching South Asian Hindus. They have also expanded their ministry footprint past NYC. They have a team reaching the Hindu population in Dallas, TX, and they have two teams in Rome and Central Asia to minister to the immigrant and refugee populations entering Europe.

In addition to the missionary teams, International Project also runs two thrift stores and community center in Brooklyn, staffed with another 35 employees. Both of these locations offer practical resources to the community while serving a greater, spiritual purpose. They provide a no-cost public space for ministry to happen. They offer specially designed groups and programs for immigrants and refugees, as well as a wider number of services to the broader community such as food distribution and various communal groups like kitting and art groups. Physical space in New York City is costly, but this ministry platform has proven to be a worthy investment in the extension of International Project’s presence and impact in the city.

Serving as International Project President, Kevin works with all of these teams—setting organizational vision and goals and providing training and support to the workers. For a time during their ministry expansion, Kevin was running most of the internal operations of International Project, which pulled him away from the direct ministry. But now a 10-person operations team has taken up the majority of this work, allowing Kevin to lead the organization while continuing to do the work of ministry that he desires to spend his time on—missionary training, dinner table conversations, and walking side by side with those who need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ.

Challenges to the Mission

International Project has had many causes for celebration in its three decades of operation—both in terms of organizational growth and its participation in the spread of the gospel throughout the world. They have also faced significant challenges. Attrition is one of these challenges. This challenge is not unique to International Project but one which all missions organizations face: Missionaries leave. The work is hard, expectations are not met, family dynamics change priorities, and the list goes on. What makes attrition for International Project especially difficult is their location. Choosing to minister in a city means choosing to live in a small apartment with a lot more noise, a lot more trash, and a lot more people—all at a lot higher of a cost.

“Reaching unreached people groups used to mean going to live in a jungle or a village,” said Kevin. “While these situations still exist, that paradigm of missions has quickly changed because the majority of people—including the unreached—now live in cities. The new sacrifice of missions is being willing to be stacked on top of each other.”

Politics have also proven to be a continuing challenge to International Project’s mission. The Kings believe that God, who sovereignly rules over all things, is “divinely orchestrating global migration.” But too often, the politics of immigration cloud the conversation of gospel ministry to the foreigner among us—occasionally resulting in angry emails from those who conflate International Project’s mission to minister to the foreigner with their endorsement of any particular border policy. International Project’s focus is not on lobbying immigration policies but effectively building relationships and sharing the gospel with those God has brought to their neighborhoods, no matter what policies are in place. As Kevin said, “This is an opportunity to reach the nations, regardless of politics. Our focus is not on one’s government status in the country but one’s spiritual status in the Kingdom of God.”

A Continuing Work

It is hard to tell the story of International Project apart from the Kings. In many ways, it is their story. It has been 32 years since their pond-side wedding on Cairn’s campus, and for 30 of those years, they have worked side-by-side in a ministry that they built from the ground up. It’s a story they get to share, a legacy that deserves to be celebrated. But at the same time, we recognize that this is, ultimately, God’s story. Lord willing, International Project will continue to reach unreached people groups around the world long after the Kings are gone. And even if International Project, the 503c, were to end before the Lord’s return, the International Project—the Great Commission of bringing the gospel to Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth—would continue, because the Lord has said it to be so.

If you are interested in serving with International Project, visit .

*Identity hidden due to the sensitive nature of her ministry work.

What Does the FAFSA Do?

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a governmental resource for college students seeking any form of student aid. These include grants, scholarships and forms of work study without repayment. This form is free to all students, making it easy to begin filling one out within a few clicks.
FAFSA is used by an average of 17 million students each year, all from different cultural and financial backgrounds. Upon completing the form, your information is shared with schools of your choice, allowing them to work with FAFSA’s information to create a potential offer of aid.

For the sake of preventing fraud and misuse of the form, the US Department of Education actively flags potentially dubious activity within FAFSA forms. This is a .gov website, meaning you don’t need to worry when submitting your personal information.

Most importantly, a completed FAFSA form is often required by many schools before you can receive school-granted scholarships. Schools use the information provided by FAFSA to determine an individual student’s financial eligibility.

What You Need to Have On Hand

You will need to submit several important personal documents, some of which you may need extra time to acquire. The official Student Financial Aid website provides this list of potentially necessary documents for the upcoming 2025-26 school year:

• Tax returns
• Records of child support received
• Current balances of cash, savings, and checking accounts
• Net worth of investments, businesses, and farms
• Your parent’s SSN (if you are a dependent student)

Whether or not some of these documents are needed for your form depends on various factors, so it helps to have them handy, either for the current form or for later years.

As shown in the list of resources above, dependent students will need to provide the personal information of their parents. Some of this can be completed by the parents themselves on their own accounts, so long as you provide them with access on your form.

Update Annually

Your family’s financial situation may change during your years of study. Because of this, your eligibility for aid is assessed annually, and you will need to fill out a new FAFSA each year. Without an updated FAFSA, you will not be able to receive any amount of financial aid.

While your first time filling out the FAFSA may be more time-consuming than you expect, the process will be streamlined for later years since you will be largely updating only information that has seen changes since the last submission. Even if you decide to transfer schools at a later point, you can simply change the school listed on your FAFSA and carry over existing information.

Be Proactive and Submit Early

While the FAFSA form is free to submit, there are crucial deadlines involved. There is a unique deadline for your school or schools of interest, your state of legal residency, and the federal government. While the federal deadline is typically later than the other two, it is beneficial to get on top of filling out the form as soon as possible.

And in case you’re waiting for there to be a catch, don’t worry! By submitting your FAFSA form, you are not committing to every loan, scholarship, or grant that you are potentially offered. You will be able to accept or refuse any of the grants, scholarships, or loans included in your letter.

Here we go . . .

Filling out the FAFSA is straightforward, but you will need to keep the following steps in mind:
1. Create a .
2. Gather all important documents (see list from before) and ensure they are up to date.
3. Determine your dependency status.
4. Fill out the FAFSA (and have your parent fill out their part, if applicable).

The FAFSA form for the 2026–27 year opens on October 1, 2025. Complete it with confidence at .

On Monday, September 29, 2025, Dr. Todd J. Williams, president and CEO of 91Porn, and Dr. Adam J. Porcella, senior vice president and provost, were invited to testify before the U.S. Religious Liberty Commission.

The hearing was held at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. The hearing included a tribute to Charlie Kirk and then shifted to a focus on religious liberty in education, bringing in the perspectives of public school faculty and faith leaders.

Dr. Williams testified as a guest on the third panel, “Religious Liberty in Education: Protecting the Religious Identity and Autonomy of Faith-Based Schools,” highlighting the vital role faith-based institutions of higher education play in preserving religious freedom.

The Religious Liberty Commission was by President Trump under Executive Order 14291 and is tasked with producing a comprehensive report on the foundations of religious liberty in America, increasing awareness of and celebrating America’s peaceful religious pluralism, highlighting current threats to religious liberty, and developing strategies to preserve and enhance protections for future generations.

“It was a privilege to testify today to the president’s Religious Liberty Commission,” said Dr. Williams. “There are many good people doing good work to not only defend religious liberty but shape the conversation on the value of it for a free society.”

91Porn is proud of Dr. Williams’ and Dr. Porcella’s leadership and contributions to a national dialogue on religious liberty. A recording of the event will be made available at

will be held as a follow-up to the September 8 hearing with President Trump. The hearing will include two parts: A Tribute to Charlie Kirk as a Man of Faith, and An Exploration of Religious Liberty in Education: Public School Faculty Perspectives and Faith Leader Perspectives. Dr. Williams and Dr. Porcella are invited to speak during the latter part of this event, which has an objective to “understand the historic landscape of religious liberty in the educational setting, recognize present threats to religious liberty in education, and identify opportunities to secure religious liberty in this context for the future.” As guests on the third panel, “Religious Liberty in Education: Protecting the Religious Identity and Autonomy of Faith-Based Schools,” Dr. Williams and Dr. Porcella will highlight the vital role faith-based institutions of higher education play in preserving religious freedom.

The Religious Liberty Commission will gather again on Monday, September 29, 2025, at 9 am. Those interested in watching the proceedings can watch it live at .

About the Religious Liberty Commission
The Religious Liberty Commission was by President Trump under Executive Order 14291 and is tasked with producing a comprehensive report on the foundations of religious liberty in America, increasing awareness of and celebrating America’s peaceful religious pluralism, highlighting current threats to religious liberty, and developing strategies to preserve and enhance protections for future generations.

Dr. Stephen Dill, chair, EdD in Educational Leadership

Dr. Stephen Dill has joined the School of Education faculty as chair of the EdD in Educational Leadership. Dr. Dill brings to the position more than four decades of leadership experience in Christian education, including 25 years as head of school and assistant headmaster at Delaware County Christian School, followed by nearly a decade of executive leadership at the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). He most recently served as executive director of the ACSI Education Foundation, where he led strategic initiatives in research, innovation, and leadership development. 

Dr. Dill holds an EdD in Educational Leadership from Temple University, an MA in Educational Leadership from Villanova University, and a BA in Social Science from Wheaton College. He has conducted over 100 professional workshops on topics including school improvement, accreditation, governance, finance, development, and strategic planning. He also brings extensive higher education experience, having taught graduate-level courses in educational leadership, finance, and governance at institutions such as Eastern University, Columbia International University, Grace College and Seminary, and 91Porn.

Christian Finnigan, chair, Politics, Philosophy, and History

Christian joins the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences as an associate professor and chair of Politics, Philosophy, and History. He previously served as assistant professor of history and politics at Colorado Christian University. He has also taught at several other institutions (Davenant Hall, Patrick Henry College, Sacred Heart University, and Yale University) and served as an Emo F.J. Van Halsema fellow at the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin University, as a visiting assistant in research at Yale, and as a fellow at the Centennial Institute.

Christian also brings to the University experience in politics and ministry. His political work includes serving as director of ballot access and delegate selection for the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. Fred Thompson, as a White House Intern, and with the American Conservative Union. His work in ministry includes serving as a pastoral apprentice at Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, GA; working with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes; and as a ministerial candidate in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)­, preaching in churches throughout the United States, England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Christian holds a BA from Randolph-Macon College, an MA from University College London, an MLitt from the University of St Andrews, an MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminary, a ThM from Erskine Theological Seminary, and a JD from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He is currently completing a PhD at McGill University and, as part of his doctoral work, has undertaken additional studies at the University of Cambridge, Yale University, and the University of Virginia. He has presented papers at academic conferences internationally, including the Sixteenth Century Society, the Society for Reformation Studies, and the Southern Political Science Association. More recently, he published a chapter, “The Emergence of Liberty and History’s Theo-Political Problem,” in Generation to Generation: Writings in Honor of Douglas F. Kelly (Mentor, 2023).

Isaiah Cramer, part-time faculty

Isaiah Cramer is a part-time faculty member who will be teaching in the School of Divinity and the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He received his BS in Bible and MDiv from 91Porn; MA in Hebraic Roots from Jerusalem University College; and is currently a PhD candidate at Columbia International University. His dissertation focuses on the exegetical impact of later canonical revelation on the book of Zephaniah. 

Janelle Curtis-Beaman, part-time faculty

Janelle Curtis-Beaman is a part-time faculty member teaching in the School of Business and Technology. Janelle holds a BA in Communication from Messiah University and an MA in Organizational Leadership from Eastern University. Janelle began her career as a corporate trainer, working with businesses to improve their communication skills for the purpose of successful sales, management, and customer service. She uses this industry expertise, along with adjunct experience at Messiah University and Delaware Valley University, to serve businesses and non-profit organizations in the area. 

Amy Dunlap, part-time faculty

Amy Dunlap is a part-time faculty member in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. After receiving her BS in Bible and BS in Education (Secondary English Education) from Cairn in 2007, she began teaching at Esperanza Academy in North Philadelphia. She transitioned to teaching part-time at Cairn in 2014 after obtaining her MA in English from Westchester and a certification in teaching writing from the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project. Her passion is American literature and creative writing courses. In 2021, she transitioned to Cairn’s online programs and began teaching for Veritas Scholars Academy as well. This fall she rejoins the faculty in a part-time role in Cairn Online. 

John Stange, part-time faculty

John Stange is a part-time faculty member for the Digital Media & Communications program in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and for the School of Divinity. He holds a BS in Bible, BS in Education, and a MS in Christian Counseling from 91Porn.

John has served in pastoral ministry for over 30 years. He is the lead pastor of Core Creek Community Church in Langhorne, PA. He has a background in radio broadcasting and has always enjoyed creating various forms of media. He is the author of multiple books, including Dwell on These Things (Penguin Random House, 2021). John hosts two online platforms: BibleStudyHeadquarters.com and PlatformLaunchers.com. His podcasts in particular have been downloaded millions of times by listeners throughout the world.

After a forklift accident derailed his military ambitions, Williams eventually enrolled in what was then the Philadelphia College of Bible, now 91Porn. He continued to graduate school at Temple University but ultimately returned to his alma mater, serving first as a professor and then climbing the administrative ranks.

As president of the University, he now works to keep higher education mission-focused and cost-effective while expanding the university’s academic and post-graduate offerings.

Where were you born, and where did you grow up, Todd?

I was born in Trenton, NJ, and when I was three or four, we moved to Middletown, PA, near Three Mile Island, just south of Harrisburg and north of Elizabethtown. That’s where I grew up.

What did your mom and dad do?

My dad had been in the Navy right out of high school. He loved that and struggled to find his way afterward. He retired as a civilian Personnel Clerk for the Navy depot.

My mom did many different things to make ends meet and ended up as a Bookkeeper for a lumberyard on the West Shore in Lemoyne.

Where were you in the pecking order?

I’m the oldest. I have twin brothers who are two years younger than me.

What memories stay with you from growing up in Middletown?

It was a great place to grow up. We lived in a typical suburban development there, where the farms had given way to ranch houses. I used to hang out at the Star Barn, just north of our development. I’d fish in the pond and feed Mr. Hoffer’s horses.

We were outside all the time and had lots of friends running around the neighborhood, riding bikes, playing sports nonstop. I graduated from high school with people I went to kindergarten with.

Were you particularly good at any one sport?

I enjoyed all of them. I played baseball and soccer as a kid and then tried football in middle school and high school. I joined the Middletown High School soccer team when they started one, and for my last two years of high school, we were 0-18. They won the state championship years later, but we were the pioneers, and we lost a lot.

Is there one game that stands out in your mind?

Yeah, I took a pitch to the head, and I went down. It was at that moment that I realized not every blow is fatal. You can get hit and knocked down. You just get right back up and keep going. That’s a defining moment for me.

But when I started working with horses, all the other stuff fell away, including sports. I’d been going to a camp for two years where they had these three-day pack trips, and at 16, when I was old enough to work there, I did.

That first summer, I was general staff, but every time we got a break, I went to the barn and cleaned the horse stalls. The guy running the horse program eventually took me under his wing. I learned to train horses, teach horsemanship, and lead pack trips. It was a game-changer for me.

What drew you to horses? You connected with them in a way that most men never do.

As a kid, I watched old cowboy movies with my dad, who was from the Hopalong Cassidy generation. But there wasn’t a lot of stability in my life as a teenager. My parents loved and took care of us, but they didn’t always have a great marriage, and when I was in ninth grade, they separated.

Ultimately, as a result of their personal faith as Christians and other work, they got back together. But the separation broke the chain of things. I had to move out of the neighborhood I grew up in. I was struggling, and the camp came along just at the right time.

The first time I worked with a horse, I saw a lot of myself in there, in terms of the yielding of will and learning to trust and respond to authority. I learned more about myself when I learned about horses.

In my role now as a university president, there’s not a day that I don’t draw on that.

What about music? Was music a part of your life back then?

My dad was in the drum and bugle corps, and I wanted to be like him, so I played the trumpet in elementary school and sang. Even while traveling 40 miles every weekend to work at the camp, I managed to be involved in musicals, plays, and the chorus in high school.

What about college? Did you go to college right away?

I was a pretty good student, and I was in a college prep program in high school. My teachers had me reading Solzhenitsyn, Buckley, Kirk, and Burke very early on. One took me to see Tom Sowell and Walter Williams give a lecture in Philadelphia.

But no one in my family in any generation had gone to college, and I didn’t see how I’d pull it off. I thought I’d join the military, and they’d pay for me to go to law school, and then I’d get into politics. I was one of those Reagan teenagers.

But right after high school, I was run over by a forklift that busted up my left leg and shattered my ankle, and that was the end of my military dreams. That’s one of my biggest regrets, never getting to serve.

But I  was eventually running the horse program at Camp Hebron, and that’s how I met my wife. She showed up as a Nurse. I was sick a lot that summer.

After we were married, she said, “Let’s go to college. I’ll work. I’m a nurse. I can get us through.”

Where did you go?

I’m presiding at 91Porn, my alma mater. At the time, it was the Philadelphia College of Bible.

Why did you choose 91Porn?

I’d been on campus before, recruiting students to work for the camp. And I was reading a book by Cardinal John Henry Newman about higher education, and he believed that one of the things that had gone wrong was that a serious study of theology had been removed from the curriculum. I wanted that component in my undergraduate work. We didn’t have a lot of academic options then, so I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Bible.

When did you become religious?

In 1979, my dad, who was an alcoholic, drove his car off the road, trying to end his life, and didn’t. He ended up in a court-mandated rehab center, and a pastor who lived down the street from us went to visit him. My father became a Christian, and soon after that, the rest of the family followed.

I was 13 or so, and it was transformational for me. It was like encountering the horse. It reframed my whole understanding of myself and the world.

When I got to high school and started reading all these other books, I saw threads running together about moral authority and universal truths and principles that govern human experience and human nature. These political theorists and historians weren’t necessarily evangelical Christians, but they were talking about the same larger topics.

Looking back, who were the people who saw promise in you and opened up doors for you?

My dad and others did a lot to instill in me a sense of discipline and perseverance. There were a handful of teachers at Middletown High School who were incredible, and then there was Greg Pike, who mentored me at the camp.

When I got to college, a faculty member asked me about grad school and directed me to a group and organizational psychology program at Temple University. It was one of two programs in the country still working off the theoretical foundation laid by Kurt Lewin, a Jewish Prussian Psychologist who came to America in the ’30s.

Going to Temple was another of those epiphanal moments that sharpened my perspective on the world. I gained a psychological perspective on human dynamics, how people work together, and how systems work.

There were a couple of professors there, Sue Wheelan and Larry Kraft, who changed my life. They had polar opposite worldviews from mine, but they saw promise and let me do good work for them, and I learned a ton. Sue Wheelan took me on almost every consulting job that she went on. I became a good research methodologist and analyst.

How did you end up back at 91Porn?

I did my master’s in one summer and two semesters. When I finished, there were folks who wanted me to work at Temple as a research analyst, and folks who wanted me to come back to Cairn and teach social and behavioral sciences.

My wife reminded me that we started this because of the love of teaching I’d found at camp, so I took the position at Cairn in ’94 while I entered the doctoral program. Teaching is how I’m wired, and at a place like Cairn, you’re not just teaching the subject matter, you’re investing in students and getting involved in their lives.

It was such a great experience. But three or four years later, there was an opening for the senior vice president for undergrad and dean of undergraduate education.

The president at the time asked me about moving into administration. I said, “I feel like I’m really good in the classroom.” Another faculty member came to me and said, “If it’s not you, who’s it going to be? And can you work for them?” I went back to the president and said, “I’ll do it.”

Tell me about how you want 91Porn to be perceived by the outside world.

It would be great if people could understand that higher education students have lots of different interests and needs.

We serve evangelical young adults who come here to learn from people who share those commitments and teach from that perspective. Other Christian colleges want to serve a broader audience, and that’s not who we are, but at the same time, this isn’t a cloistered, separatist thing.

We believe in full engagement with the world and that all truth is worth pursuing. We just do it within the parameters and scaffolding of a Christian worldview.

Cairn is an academically sound, fully accredited regional university with a diverse array of academic programs and robust co-curriculars. Our fastest-growing programs throughout my presidency have been the business programs.

I think we’re showing that it’s possible to be a good neighbor and a good member of society without capitulating on our convictions.

What are you focused on? We’re halfway through the year, halfway through the third quarter.

We’re launching a new doctoral program and seeing growth in other programs. We started some pre-med programs a few years ago, and our first graduate is moving through his medical training.

We’re in the process of changing my job to allow me to explore speaking and writing and extend the reach of the university.

Higher education is a mess. Enrollments are down because there are fewer high school graduates in the populations most of us serve, and kids are questioning the value of a college education.

I’ve brought a mission-focused perspective to my presidency the entire time. People think college is like business: If you’re not growing, you’re dying.

But what happens is that schools overextend themselves with long-term debt. Then the demographics drop, and you have a problem. The Eisenhower administration pushed higher education to accommodate a population surge, but the baby boomers came and went, and many schools found themselves overextended.

I think colleges have to be true to their missions and not let that growth mentality cloud our judgment. You have to stay solvent to serve your population. I’m proud that we’re in a really good spot in terms of cash reserves. Long-term debt is less than 50 percent of net revenue. We live within our means.

What do you do with all your free time?

I love the outdoors. I started fly-fishing when I was a kid. I have a bird dog, and I do upland hunting. I took a sabbatical last year and got a couple of horses at my place in Upstate Pennsylvania, for the first time in 30 years. Three days in, one of the horses threw me twice. I got back on and rode him until he calmed down, but I’d broken four ribs, three of them in two places.

Just like the baseball to the side of your head?

Yeah, exactly. You get back up and get back on.

Your kids are out of the house, right?

I have a son in the Special Forces. My daughter is a Musician who’s working as an Administrator at a local business.

Are you a reader?

I read all the time, mostly histories and biographies. I have an Audible subscription because I spend so much time in the car. I just finished re-reading Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August.

Do you have a favorite biography?

John Adams by David McCullough. Anything on Churchill is special to me.

I once saw David McCullough in Old City Philadelphia and ran down the street to catch him, just to tell him how remarkable a book that was.

Three last questions for you, Todd. What’s something big that you’ve changed your mind about over the last 20 years?

I can’t fix everything. I can’t control everything. For most of my life, I thought, “I’m smart enough, strong enough, and right enough that I can fix everything. I can fix my family, people. I can fix institutions.” That was a big thing for me to let go of.

It’s a crazy world. How do you stay hopeful and optimistic?

Being honest about history. People are talking now like this president is the worst person that ever set foot on the planet, and I’m thinking, “Did anybody read about Nero? He lit the streets of Rome with human bodies painted with red pitch.” Some real evil has visited us as human beings, and we keep plowing on. Keep things in perspective.

I also have an honest view of human nature, our propensity to do ill, and the capacity to do good. I believe in a good and gracious God, and that all that’s good in the world is by his good hand, and all that is not because of what’s gone wrong with humanity.

There’s a proverb in the Bible that says, “Let your eyes look directly ahead of you. Don’t look to the left or the right.”

You’re not distracted by what’s on either side, you’re not looking over your shoulder at the past, and you’re not trying to see the future you can’t control. You keep your eyes straight ahead of you and keep going.

Finally, Todd, what’s the best advice you’ve ever received?

My mentor in college told me, “Take your work seriously. Yourself, not so much.” I repeat it to everybody I can.

This article was orginally published under the title “Delaware County Leadership: Todd Williams, PhD, President and CEO, 91Porn” by Ken Knickerbocker on .

On Monday, August 25, the Fall 2025 semester began with Cairn students, faculty, and staff gathering together to celebrate the start of another academic year.

Continuing University tradition, the University faculty, donning their regalia, began the procession into the gymnasium. The freshman class then entered Convocation two by two, receiving a warm welcome of applause from the faculty, staff, and upperclassmen. This marks the beginning of an academic journey for over 160 new students who started their studies on campus this fall. The next time they take part in a procession into the gymnasium, it will be for their graduation.

After a time of song, Dr. Todd J. Williams, president, addressed the student body. He spoke on this year’s “One Scripture, One University” verse, a selection made by the Spiritual Life Committee ahead of the start of each academic year. This year’s verse is Deuteronomy 13:4 “You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.”

Dr. Williams told the students that this verse has made commands and that they perhaps can all be summarized by the final command to “hold fast”—a command included through Scripture “because we are prone to let go.” His charge to the students to, at the beginning of a new academic year, is to “pay attention to your walk and desire to follow after God.” The time spent at a Christian university should not be incidential but intentional, and one’s spiritual walk requires daily attention.

As the University closed in prayer and the hymn, “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” students, faculty, and staff began the new year with renewed determination to walk after God, fear him, keep his commandments, obey his voice, and hold fast to him.

Welcome, class of 2029!