Cultural Update: The Threat to Christian Colleges; Harvard's Reparations Collapse; Turning the Page on Campus Coddling; A Lesson in Political Shrewdness
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A new federal regulation requiring college graduates to out-earn non-degree holders threatens |
| 0:08.4 | to defund Christian higher education programs. |
| 0:12.6 | Harvard's $100 million reparations initiative collapses amid resignations, research, or firings, |
| 0:20.4 | and the overwhelming complexity of identifying thousands |
| 0:23.4 | of potential descendants of American slaves. |
| 0:28.4 | Universities are turning the page on years of campus coddling and rediscovering academic |
| 0:32.6 | standards and free speech as they respond in part to political pressure. |
| 0:43.3 | And finally, dying Congressman Barney Frank tells Democrats that the key to reaching truly revolutionary goals, like the entire LGBTQ agenda, is starting where people can be moved |
| 0:49.7 | and holding back on your ultimate goals. |
| 0:53.7 | These are the stories we'll discuss on this edition of the Think Biblically Cultural Update, |
| 0:58.3 | brought to you by Talbot School of Theology and Biola University. |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm your host today, Rick Langer, and joining me as a good friend and colleague, Eric Thomas. |
| 1:06.2 | Eric, thanks for being with me. |
| 1:07.8 | Good to be with you, Rick. |
| 1:10.1 | We're both filling in together for your regular host, Scott Ray and Sean McDowell, |
| 1:14.6 | who are both traveling this week and for unknown reasons have trusted us to take over this |
| 1:18.9 | podcast for a week. |
| 1:22.9 | And so, Eric, thanks for doing this with me. |
| 1:26.3 | Hang in there and we'll see if we can make this work. |
| 1:28.9 | Rick, it's going to be great. I just know it. |
| 1:31.6 | All right. Well, our first story was published this past week on the Christianity Today website, |
| 1:37.5 | and it's titled Christian Colleges called New Federal Regulations an Existential Threat. |
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