The Evangelical MIND Revisited. (cover story)

CHRISTIAN universities & colleges; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; EVANGELICALISM; UNITED States education system; CULTURE; CHRISTIANS; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; CHURCH schools

The article comments on whether conservative Christian colleges and universities should continue to move toward the mainstream of American life. The ways conservative Christian colleges respond to the world around them tells a great deal about the kind of country the U.S. is likely to be 30 or even 20 years from now. Not all conservative Christians are happy with the mainstreaming of their colleges and universities. Evangelicals are not the only ones creating colleges and universities determined to recreate an intensely Christian subculture. In a system of higher education as diverse as the one in the United States, there will be a niche for every taste, including those parents who want their children to be taught fundamental religious truths and exposed to traditional standards of moral conduct. Those attracted to newly created conservative Christian schools believe that their institutions need to resist the temptation to join the mainstream.