The challenge of academic hostility toward Christianity
I’m not suggesting that college is without its share of difficulties. Parents are concerned about the hostility of American higher education to religious faith for good reasons.
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Skip to main contentI’m not suggesting that college is without its share of difficulties. Parents are concerned about the hostility of American higher education to religious faith for good reasons.
College students may find it can be difficult to connect with a new church or keep up with Bible reading and prayer without the support of their parents, youth pastor or Christian friends.
Administrators and faculty appear to be clueless of their responsibility to a large donor class and this also appears not to be of concern.
It appears to me that at least once a week, no once a day doesn’t pass without someone “talking” about their disappointment with education.
We are sometimes blissfully (and even willfully) ignorant of just how politicized our children’s schools can be. But this email, sent to me by a school teacher, the wife of a Facebook friend, will help shock us back to reality.
Early every fall on college campuses large and small, family vehicles line up near dorms and a new class of freshmen steps out into the big intersection of freedom and responsibilities. Parents are stepping, too, of course, but stepping back--away from the college, out of their child's daily life, and to a long drive home.