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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Dr. Arnn @ a parents dinner was asked if the dorms would ever be co-ed. He wittingly declined co-ed dorms and described Hillsdale; “Where the girls are a all pretty, and the boys are all interested”.
The.real, honest Christian colleges should invite serious Christians who are at nominal Christian colleges for fellowship and possible transfer. Not to be done for expanding the college, but for ministering to a fellow truthful believer.
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