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Having graduated from a 're-Christianized' college (Grove City College) w/a worldview emphasis I found Christianity Today's A Higher Education of interest w/regard to the wider scene, including Waynesburg's continued mov't in that direction and Nathan Hatch's appointment as President of Wake Forest.

As a member of InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministry, observations such as the one below is applicable in the daily life and conversation of Christian members of the CMU and Pitt academic communities:

"The question of just how Christian learning is, and is not, to be different from secular learning has sometimes been the tar baby of the whole discussion—no matter how you approach it, you always get stuck. That's why Wolterstorff's approach needs a broader hearing. He argues that Christian learning's primary obligation is to be faithful to the Christian vision, which he sums up in the Hebrew word shalom. First and foremost, Christian scholars and educators are called to faithfulness. Sometimes faithful scholarship looks like secular scholarship, and sometimes it does not, but the question of difference is secondary.

But one aspect of Wolterstorff's view will be troubling to most evangelicals, and I suspect this is why at this point even he pulls his punch. Every Christian scholar agrees that Christian truth may demand that we adjust our scholarly beliefs. But Wolterstorff argues that—sometimes—the discovery of truth through scholarship will demand we adjust beliefs that we think are Christian. This is implicit in the work of Arthur Holmes (all truth is God's truth), and it's demonstrably true in historical perspective."