Dr Paul Allen

How do we explain the increasing radicalization of our country? How do we explain the decided shift left? In 2000, Roger Kimball noted that “The Age of Aquarius did not end when the last electric guitar was unplugged at Woodstock. It lives on in our values, habits, tastes, pleasures, and aspirations. It lives on, especially in our educational and cultural institutions, and in the degraded pop culture that permeates our lives like a corrosive fog. . . . Although sometimes tempted to ignore it, we are living in the aftermath of a momentous social and moral assault.” Kimball’s book was aptly titled The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America .  Eight years later, in 2008, Kimball wrote Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education.   How far has this corruptive process gone? Christopher Ingraham wrote for the Washington Post in 2016,  “If you’ve spent time in a college or university any time in the past quarter-century, you probably aren’t

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