As many of our most recently alumni head off to college, consider this challenge concerning the Christian intellectual life from contemporary theologian, ethicist and public intellectual Stanley Hauerwas.
An open letter to young Christians on their way to college
The Christian religion,” wrote Robert Louis Wilken, “is inescapably ritualistic (one is received into the Church by a solemn washing with water), uncompromisingly moral (‘be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect,’ said Jesus), and unapologetically intellectual (be ready to give a ‘reason fo…
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