REVrant 29.8 - College campuses may nurture faith

The Denver Post - Study: College campuses may nurture faith.

How’s this for a shift in thinking?  Even though college-aged students may not attend church at the rate they did when they were at home with their parents, their “faith” may actually be “nurtured” in college!  This is a surprisingly encouraging Denver Post article.  See what you think.

Comments

[Joel Newton]

The Post article was definitely an encouraging one! It shows how we can't totally trust statistics (aka a large number of high school students drop out of the church in college). They might not attend Sunday morning church as regularly but they are actively engaged with God and other believers on their college campuses. Stories like this cause us to rethink our definition of "church." Church is not a building but a committed group of believers who meet together regularly.

[Sandy]

MHR,
Campus Crusade and Navigators' ministries are very active on the CSU campus where Alese attends. Interestingly enough, both our children have grown "leaps and bounds" in their faith since they entered college. I believe it's due to the fact that they have to "own their faith" in ways that they didn't while under our roof. I read the article...it was very encouraging :-)Thanks for posting it.

[Anna Thorne]

I agree with the article...growing up in the Christian bubble often didn't provide challenges to my faith; it was more a time of learning and trying to fit my brain around it all. (Summit Ministries in CO Springs and Bill Jack have helped so much with that!) Now there are people at ACC who challenge what I know--I even got into a debate with my chemistry teacher last week over evolution. I didn't really bring up creation so much as I asked questions to point out the problems with evolution, and I learned that he's very good at evading questions and changing the subject. Our 10-minute break during class was extended to 30 min because the two of us were discussing again, this time whether or not there is such a thing as truth. He refused to concede a point to me, but eventually said I had an A for critical thinking which he believes is a lost skill in today's world. It was interesting, and motivates me to go back and dig up a lot of what I learned but have somewhat forgotten in the past 6-7 years about apologetics.