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Head, Heart, and Hand: John Brown University and Modern Evangelical Higher Education . By Rick Ostrander. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. xiv + 277 pp. $29.95 cloth.

This institutional history traces a "coming of age" process that began with the story of the founder, John Brown, Sr., and ends at the outset of the twenty-first century. Established in 1919 as an appendage of the evangelistic career of the founder, John Brown University, eighty years later, had become clearly a center for academic study, still within the framework of conservative Christianity. The author focuses on this process of change, noting consistency of leadership through three generations of the Brown family, and a steady move toward academic respectability, especially in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Well documented and clearly written, the narrative is often linked to a broader framework of national evangelical history. Ostrander sees Calvin College in Michigan as a shaper of faculty thinking and an influence on recent curriculum changes at John Brown. He also stresses the early break of the University with Fundamentalism and its embrace of a broader contemporary evangelicalism (though he does not fully explore similarities and differences between these two religious subcultures). Pursuit over many years of accreditation by the key secular accrediting agency, the North Central Association of Colleges, provides an interesting tale in cultural accommodation. But this pursuit also implicitly raises the question (never fully explored), "Will accommodation spoil evangelicalism?" This reviewer also wanted Ostrander to reflect more deeply on why John Brown has never attracted many African and Native Americans, instead achieving diversity by recruiting young Latinos from Central America. This is an illuminating book about the contemporary evangelical community.