The Unlikely Disciple

sbjdorlo
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:40:10 +0000

Wait a minute, Whistle Pig, I think you missed some good points from the book.

I’m a conservative Christian parent and I enjoyed the book very much. (I couldn’t quite hand it to my then 16 year old son because he used some graphic language for female body parts but now that my son is approaching 18, I might allow him to read it)

One of the important things that the book points out is that even at conservative Christian colleges, kids struggle with the same things as kids at secular colleges, things like sex, drugs, homosexuality, etc. I think it’s important for Christian kids to be prepared for struggles at Christian colleges and not to be lulled into thinking everyone will be living the holy life.

Some of the youth at our church are going through the Truth Project and in interviewing kids at Christian colleges, many of them say it’s almost more difficult attending a Christian college (and I don’t know which specific colleges they attended) because they really struggled as they saw kids around them doing things they never thought they’d see.

I didn’t like everything in the book but I thought it was worthwhile.