Posted on 10/02/2024 3:38:10 AM PDT by karpov
Things should be what they are, in higher education as elsewhere. Colleges advertising a liberal-arts curriculum should immerse their students in literature, history, and philosophy. STEM giants such as Georgia Tech should provide, to the extent possible, world-class labs. Community colleges should offer affordable credits to local residents. The University of Alabama should teach football. (I’m joking. Mostly.)
This principle is particularly true for religious schools, which have a special obligation to be faithful to their stated purposes. Zaytuna College, a Muslim institution in California, should (and does) teach the Koran. Jewish Yeshiva University ought not to shill for “Palestine.” Christian colleges, buffeted by declining religiosity and the contempt of Democratic administrations, must take extraordinary care not to devolve into secularism. Do they? In some cases. Yet the story of Christian higher education in America is increasingly a narrative of faithlessness, compromise, and decline.
Why this matters depends on one’s perspective. For the non-Christian but right-leaning reader, the separation of institutions from their principles is inherently suspect—one more blow against the Burkean “little platoons” that stand between the people and an overweening state. For the Christian parent, the untrustworthiness of the local faith-based college is a far less abstract disaster. Every year, tens of thousands of well-meaning families save and sacrifice to afford private-Christian tuition. If the colleges in question teach Wokeness with Protestant Characteristics, or “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism,” then real harm has been done. Little Johnny would have been much better off at State U.
Happily, this isn’t 1990. Most of the information needed by a prospective Christian-college consumer is online, ready to be accessed by those in the know. What follows is a consideration of how that research ought to be done, in the form of four leading questions and answers.
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I can’t believe his tests will yield but a handful of schools, and of those I doubt you would get a good education.
In today’s day and age, just attend a good large school and make sure you are competetive. Instead of finding a Christian school, work harder at finding friends who pass the test.
IMHO a test should be if the Christian college gets a lot of federal money, which comes with strings attached.
If the Left hates it, it is a good school
How to Find an Authentic Christian College
Abilene Texas has 3.
Abilene Christian (Church of Christ)
https://acu.edu/
Hardin-Simmons (Baptist)
https://www.hsutx.edu/
McMurry (Methodist)
https://ww2.mcm.edu/
They are all three academically solid. World view of the three vary a bit, but None of them are bad options. You won’t find screaming Leftist there.
Liberty University.
It showed during the Fiesta Bowl last year.
Heh, you won’t name any of our famed “Catholic” colleges, then.
The youngest is at Regent, they have prayer vigils for Israel instead of protests and rallies for hamas....and calculus is still hard 😉 the other 3 went to state colleges and did fine, but there’s a BIG gap and a lot is upside down now.
The Christian College / seminary I and many family members went to since the 1930s closed this year. I’m not sure how “Christian” it was when it shut down; it had been going modern and more liberal for at least 20 years. I have a feeling that’s a sad trend now.
The Masters University in Newhall CA is mostly solid. College of the Ozarks in Branson is overtly patriotic with a broad Christian undertone.
If you want a good university AND one that has a strong Christian presence, take a good look at Auburn University. It is a secular university, but there are some strong, non-denominational ministries available. There is lots of evangelism and Bible study and several, solid, Bible-is-the-Word-of-God churches to nourish and train believers in the area. Trinity Presbyterian in Opelika is just one such church.
“IMHO a test should be if the Christian college gets a lot of federal money, which comes with strings attached.”
The Federal money aspect is huge. If a college takes a penny, it will have to compromise.
Bob Jones University refuses Federal money — at least it used to. Two of my brothers, and some cousins, went there in the ‘70s, and got good educations. My friend’s daughter graduated from BJU and went on to pilot Poseidon planes for the Navy — now an instructor.
My brother works at Houghton College in western NY — Wesleyan Methodist. Some preacher relatives went there in the ‘50s and ‘60s. It had been sliding into modernism for a while, but last I heard the new President was getting it back on track. The campus is stunningly beautiful. (Trivia: Deborah Birx went there.)
Grove City in PA is supposed to be good, but I don’t know if that’s because of the Christian aspect, or conservative political thing.
John MacArthur’s “The Master’s University” in CA is supposed to be good. If MacArthur runs it, it probably is.
Liberty probably is OK. It used to be, anyhow.
Anyhow, FWIW...
Patrick Henry College.
I second the recommendation for Auburn University. I think one searching for a Christian atmosphere can certainly find it there. There are the other elements as well, but tolerance of others is a hallmark of Auburn.
Yep. Bob Jones as well.
Ask me how I know.
Son went to Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa.
JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY in Siloam Springs Arkansas.
For those who remember news commentator Paul Harvey Aurandt on the radio at noon, he went there. His broadcast name was simply Paul Harvey.”STAND BY FOR NEWS!”
Only news caster people really trusted.
Not many
My son just got offered about a 65% coverage from a Catholic college in Louisville
I looked at their mission statement
Liberation baby
My son uses social media sites for meeting conservative young women to date. He has met and dated a couple Hillsdale College girls. He is so impressed. He says the young woman he met from Franciscan University in Steubenville is also very based. He looks at the person’s philosophy or how they think, essentially. (They are also easy on the eyes.)
He says when he has kids he would happily send them to either of those two colleges.
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