Crusader War College

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In consultation with involved college faculty, the Department of Transdimensional Warfighting has been renamed the Department of Experimental Religion, with warfighting being a division within that department. This change was initiated by the faculty of the former department when research indicated that the original focus was too narrow, and that confusion would result regarding the former name if that focus was broadened. This is not in response to a "softening" of the original intent of the deparment, but due to a realization that transdimensional warfighting is a sub-menu option of a larger set of capabilities, the research of which requires a larger and more integrated program that does not lend itself to an inter-departmental/inter-disciplinary approach.

The new department also serves a need that the old one had inadvertently ignored. While not disputing the dire need to train transdimensional warfighters, such a program trains practitioners, but not researchers. After some prayer, the faculty realized that the required research program for the new department would dovetail neatly with the needs of the older department: A researcher would necessarily be a warfighter, but a warfighter is not necessarily a researcher. Developing researchers is to be preferred: we are a War College, not a vo-tech school. The current outline of the research program/curriculum leads us away from a dual-track program to a program with initial and follow-on components. To modify and extend an old, but true, saw: "Giving a man a fish feeds one man for a day. Teaching a man how to fish feeds one man for a lifetime. Teaching a man how to teach other men how to fish feeds multitudes."

The output of the new Department will be documented in Journal of Experimental Religion.