Biola
My alma mater is covered in the NY Times magazine this week. The sub-header says:
At Biola University, the awkward home-schoolers and the tattooed born-agains and the far-out missionary kids all agree on one thing — being a Christian-college student no longer means sheltering yourself from the world.
I fit into the "far-out missionary kids" label, sort of. I had a few years in southern California and Portland, Oregon that make me a bit more American than most.
Just a few days ago I wrote about "detachment" and how I believed that true Christianity must involve itself in everything around a person. As much as I disliked Biolan culture, it was more about methodology than ideology, I've come to discover.
Many people like me, jaded alums, try to distance themselves from the school because they don't want to be tainted by its methodology. I disagree with this because I think that all good schools are made so because the people who went through them built them up. Have a look at the Harvard endowment if you need any proof of this.
One day, I'll band together with some people and raise enough money to get a scholarship going for the types of students that I think can affect change most: mavericks, wanderers, writers, thinkers, and philosophers. We'll make the place with our own manifesto.
By the way, print off the article if you're interested. Once it's archived, you'll have to pay for it.
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