One thing that most Christians haven't experienced to a college is being the odd man out.

And most of the reason is because they've grown up in a Christian environment.

And they've been in a church and a youth group and so on.

Yeah, maybe they went to a secular high school, but even so, it didn't really feel like they were that oddly out.

But when you get to a big university, suddenly you realize, wow, no one here thinks like me.

No one here believes what I believe.

I am really intellectually and

theologically in the minority in ways I've never experienced before.

And that raises really important theological questions,

which is basically if Christianity is true,

why don't more people believe it?

Or to put it even more bluntly, if Christianity is true, why does it seem like the smartest people or the very ones who don't

believe it?

Welcome to the Crossway podcast, a show where we sit down with authors each week for thoughtful

interviews about the Bible, theology, church history, and the Christian life. I'm Matt Tully, and today I'm talking

with Michael Krueger. Michael is the president and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and

early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary, and a leading scholar on the origins and development

of the New Testament canon. He's also the author of Surviving Religion

101, Letters to a Christian student on Keeping the Faith in College from Crossway. Today, Michael

and I discuss what it takes for Christian college students to make it through college with their

faith intact. He highlights the top intellectual challenges to biblical Christianity many students will face

at a secular campus, including unprecedented pressure to abandon the Bible's teaching on gender

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