Dr Paul Allen

Christian researchers publish grim statistics every year about the university exodus of church-fleeing teens, but raising the alarm never seems to stem the tide. Churches and parents grasp at their graduating high schoolers, warning them about the temptations and ideologies waiting to consume them on-campus. Student ministries focus on apologetics, answering worldview questions, and defending the truths of Scripture. Campus ministries canvas the quad to draw struggling Christians into cheerful religious communities with pizza and froff. And yet the great collegiate apostasy continues. So, what’s wrong? When I walked away from Christ in college, I wasn’t won to the world by “lofty sounding arguments.” I just wanted friends. My experience since then confirms that I wasn’t alone. Though many students succumb to gnawing intellectual doubts about the trustworthiness of the Bible while in college, many others wander away from Christ in search of relational and emotional fulfillment.  Apparen