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The Alisa Childers Podcast

#111 How to Survive College with Your Christian Faith Intact, with Michael Kruger

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's no secret that many colleges and universities can actively undermine the Christian beliefs of students. Some professors even admit that this is their goal. How can Christians students think critically about the ideas they will encounter when they go off to college? Dr. Michael Kruger joins me on the podcast to talk about how he survived college with his faith intact, despite having the famous skeptic Dr. Bart Ehrman as a professor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an example of the incoherence of postmodernity,

0:04.1

where you make absolute moral claims against other people,

0:07.3

although I'm pretending not to make absolute moral claims,

0:09.6

and then chiding people for making absolute moral claims.

0:11.8

Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast.

0:31.3

It's no secret that many Christian kids are intellectually unprepared

0:35.8

for the skepticism that they're going to encounter when they go to college or university,

0:41.4

specifically in regard to their Christian beliefs.

0:44.0

My guest today is a Bible scholar who's just written a book that he hopes will help.

0:48.8

So Dr. Michael Kruger serves as the president and Samuel C. Patterson,

0:53.2

professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the Charlotte campus

0:57.5

of Reformed Theological Seminary.

1:00.1

He's written several really great books,

1:01.9

and today we're going to talk about his latest,

1:04.2

which is called Surviving Religion 101,

1:07.0

letters to a Christian student on keeping the faith in college.

1:11.0

Dr. Kruger, it's so great to have you back on the podcast.

1:14.4

Well, thanks. Great to be back. Look forward to this conversation.

1:17.4

Well, we previously spoke about your book,

1:19.5

the Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity,

1:21.8

and now you're back with an important message.

1:24.4

And I think they're connected because we do see so many people

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