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Preparing for college can be fun. iPod? Check. Clothes? Check. Cell phone? Check. Credit card? Check. Christian worldview support system in place? What?
As we head into fall in the northern hemisphere, many students are entering a new school year—in college or university classes or perhaps in their local junior high or high school. If you're one of them and are a Christian, odds are you haven't given much thought to your Christian worldview support system.
You may have carefully planned your class load or electives, but you probably have not considered the need for help in keeping your Christian perspective intact. However, many Western nations are experiencing an increasingly secular worldview, and education often seems to lead that charge. After all, many consider it more erudite to think we human beings can make all the decisions about what is right and wrong without help from anyone.
To help students hold on to their Christian values as they enter the college or university world, I interviewed three college professors who are Christians. I asked them for their advice on helping students remain true to their Christian beliefs when it seems these values are undermined at every turn. Here is the panel and their answers to the questions posed.
Rick Avent, who has a Ph.D. in civil engineering, recently retired from Louisiana State University. He taught at Georgia Tech for six years and Mississippi State for seven years and spent the last 25 years of his career at LSU.
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