Mission:
• To promote the search for temporal and eternal truth through art and community;
• To equip artists with skills and values, enabling them to enrich and inspire their cultures;
• To accomplish our mission through quality and affordable distance education.

Creed:
We believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and in free and open intellectual inquiry and expression.

Vision:
• To create a community and college environment that honors intellectual, philosophical and spiritual inquiry and opposes prejudices, dogmas and preconceptions that inhibit such inquiry.
• We welcome all who value an environment where questions regarding spiritual matters are sought and prized, not dismissed or judged.

Some Thoughts for Writers

"Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem." Walt Whitman

"Madness you may call it, but therein may be the secret of his genius... I prefer the word exaltation, exaltation which can merge into madness, perhaps. In fact all great men have had that vein in them; it was the source of their greatness; the reasonable man achieves nothing." 
-- James Joyce on Feodor Dostoyevski

“We read to know we’re not alone.” C.S. Lewis