Christian College & The Spirituality Therein

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Beloved Covenant College professor, author, and family man, Dr. Kelly Kapic, joins us to talk number 2 pencils and the spirituality of college students. He shares some of his joys teaching at Covenant College, a small private Christian college atop Lookout Mountain, and also voices misconceptions of Christian college. There are some valid concerns Dr. Kapic has for today’s Christian college student yet many encouraging thoughts, too. So what hurdles does a Christian education pose to a students’ spirituality? What invaluable lessons about community and singleness can be gleaned from such a unique institution? And what’s this … the Mad Woman went to Covenant College - who ever let her out of the attic!?The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer you a free MP3 download entitled "Theological Options in Worldview Formations", by Robert Shelton. Discount is applied at checkout.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,
0:23.5	Todd Brewitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:30.3	Evangelicals. This week, we'll be joined by Kelly Capick, teacher at Covenant College to talk about the
0:37.1	benefits and struggles of
0:38.6	Christian College. We'll hear about the transition from the home to college to young adult life
0:44.1	and mall through the many challenges students face. And we'll get the inside scoop from a recent
0:49.5	covenant grad. Let's join the conversation.
1:02.3	Welcome to Mortification of Spin. We're very privileged to have today in our very expensive new studios in Atlanta, Georgia. An old friend, Professor Kelly Capic. Kelly is
1:08.2	Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College on Lookout Mountain in
1:14.9	Tennessee. Georgia, but close. Sorry. Why did I think it was Tennessee? It's actually
1:20.9	Lugan Mountain has like three miles in Tennessee. Okay. And then it's Georgia. It's right there
1:27.3	by the border. I'm very sorry that I insulted either Georgia or Tennessee. Okay. And then it's Georgia. Right there by the border.
1:28.1	Very sorry that I insulted either Georgia or Tennessee then.
1:31.3	Everyone's mad, but that's fine.
1:33.0	Anyway, Kelly's at Covenant College.
1:35.4	Great to have him with us today.
1:36.7	And we want to talk about the topic of Christians in higher education.
1:40.2	Challenges that are faced both spiritually, perhaps, and in a more broad cultural framework that
1:46.0	we now find ourselves in North America. So Kelly, perhaps you'd like to just tell us a little
1:51.0	bit about your teaching at Covenant, what you find particularly satisfying, what particular
1:56.5	challenges you're facing at this specific moment in time. Sure. It's great to be here. I've been at
2:02.0	Covenant since 2001, and I love being at Covenant. Colleagues are fantastic, but part of what
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