If you're the leader of a Christian institution, you are essentially in the business of differentiated education.

You are offering a product that is more expensive than what's on offer at the local state university.

And if you're not offering something that is different enough that it's providing a benefit over and above being at a secular school, people are not

going to pay that economic premium.

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Once again, I'm your tour guide, Joseph back home, and this is yet another exercise in taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, which is our goal here to think biblically, to think truthfully about the world that God has created and placed us in. While the goal of life, really,

for Christians is to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, we must acknowledge

that we do, in fact, learn how to think the way we think is influenced greatly by what we love,

and what we love is greatly influenced by the environment we spend time in and what the people around us love.

This is why the environment in which we are educated matters so much.

For better or worse, institutions of higher learning have been shaping worldviews, shaping

loves, and teaching people how to think.

We know that universities in general have moved left over time.

That's also happened in universities that identify as Christian.

It's not uncommon these days to hear parents and grandparents tell stories of sending

their children to universities that hold themselves out as Christian, only to see their children

lose their faith and have it destroyed by Bible teachers who don't believe the Bible.

And we're going to talk about this today with someone who actually has developed a tool to help you separate the Christian colleges from the Christian in name only colleges.

Dr. Jesse Ryan is the founder and executive director of the Center for Academic Faithfulness and Flourishing.

He's served in faculty and administrative roles at three faith-based college campuses,

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