Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Romans 1:24-32
Anyone who thinks that Evangelical universities and colleges are actually Christian isn't paying attention. Lighthouse Trails Research Project published the following letter from a reader on June 27, 2022 (link in original):
I am a Westmont grad from the early 70s, and, with my husband, a Multnomah University alum as well. I grew up in a church closely associated with Multnomah when its slogan was: “If you want Bible, you want Multnomah.” But no longer. We live near the school and have seen the apostasy firsthand. It breaks our hearts.I responded with several comments:
Westmont was beginning to crack while I was there. Most of the older faculty were still OK but the administration was caving in to vocal students who were very rebellious, especially toward the Christian stance of the school.
We sent a daughter to Trinity Western University in Langley BC in 2000, back when I still believed printed doctrinal statements. She went from respecting the Word of God and loving her parents to becoming a radical socialist activist who excises out of her life anyone who doesn’t support her current values, including us. I don’t know of any of her friends from there who haven’t followed the same path, either becoming indifferent to, or antagonistic toward biblical Christianity. She goes to a social justice episcopal church.
My niece, a pastor’s daughter, went to Texas Christian University, graduating around 2006. She became a Unitarian a few years ago.
The daughter of my husband’s boss is an enthusiastic Biola grad. She is also a shaven head goth who spoke at her grandfather’s funeral, calling up his spirit and having a lovely visit with him over a glass of wine!
We pray for their salvation. I believe the reason our other children still walk with the Lord is because they eschewed college (and debt) for other kinds of career training. The Lord is blessing them.
Colleen
Back in the 1980s, Herbert Schlossberg was quoted as saying that the real mission field was the evengelical colleges, which had largely lost the idea of confronting the world, and instead had largely accommodated it.
I’ve been saying for years that doctrinal statements are often useless; there are many churches, schools, and evangelical organizations that have good-looking statements of faith, but they don’t follow them in practice.
If you want to know how “Christian” an “evangelical” college is, don’t look at its statement of faith; look at the student newspaper and blogs. They’re often full of apostasy, and it’s an indication of the school’s apostasy that they even allow such content to be published. (June 27, 2022)
Further to my comment above, look at any issue of Mars’ Hill, the TWU student newspaper. Glance at any issue, and I dare you to find anything distinctively Christian.
As an example of the apostasy to be found in any issue is in the October 6, 2021 issue. Go to page 12, and you’ll find an article promoting animism.
The arts and culture editor (2020-21) and managing editor (2021-22) of Mars’ Hill was one Carter Sawatzky, a drag queen who occupies several letters on the alphabet pervert spectrum, and is appearing with “gay Christian” Greg Coles at a Preston Sprinkle-hosted conference .
If TWU were actually Christian, characters like this would have been kept out, and Mars’ Hill wouldn’t be allowed to be published (November 30, 2023).
Further to my most recent comment, this is what Carter Sawatzky looks like now [in his profile as a graduate student at the University of British Columbia] (bold in original) (September 25, 2024):
Carter Sawatzky
They/Them
MA Student
RESEARCH AREA Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Rhetoric
PERIOD/NATION RESEARCH AREA
Contemporary Literatures
About
Carter Sawatzky (they/them) is a first-year MA student in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC with research interests in queer/trans studies, HIV/AIDS literature, and medical humanities. They received their BA Honours English from Trinity Western University where they wrote their Honours thesis on queer strategies of coping with disease and dis/ability through various forms of resilience and resistance in contemporary American literature on HIV/AIDS. Beyond academia, they are also the communications director of One TWU, the independent coalition of LGBTQIA2S+ students, alumni, and allies at TWU.
