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Why Students Don't 'Get It'

If Christian Smith and Melinda Denton are correct, our key concern in regards to the next generation is that they "get" Christianity. Our primary focus should turn from whether Christian students like church, or whether they think of Jesus as their best friend, or even whether they know why they believe what they believe (though that has been a useful tag line for Summit Ministries for years). Primarily, if Smith and Denton are correct, our focus should be teaching them what...

Win a half-tuition scholarship to a two-week Summit Student Conference!

Grand prize: Two half-tuition scholarships ($400 value each) for one male student and one female student to a Summit Ministries Student Conference in Colorado.

Entry prize: A complimentary copy of Summit president Dr. David Noebel's classic book, Understanding the Times, will be sent to all valid entrants.

Essay Topic: Write a letter to an atheist, like Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) or Christopher Hitchens (God is Not Great), about why evidence and reason point to the existence of God.

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Note: Deadline is June 30th!!!

Father's Day Interview: Advice to Younger Men [Guest: Bruce Wheaton]
Father's Day Weekend is upon us and that means it's time for the annual Father's Day program on The Christian Worldview where I interview my 77-year-old father, Bruce Wheaton. Married for 55 years, the father of four and grandfather to six, my dad has been...

Being a Father to the Fatherless [Guest: Mike Gottfried]
If you had to identify one single contributing factor to the decline of American culture — immorality, crime, divorce, dependency on government, etc. — you could point to the national epidemic of the fatherless home. While 80% of the "post-war generation" spent their entire childhood with both parents in the home, only 50% will...

Lessons from Singleness and Engagement
Next Saturday, June 20th is my wedding day. Life is always changing but certainly the transition from singleness to marriage is one of the most significant changes in life. During 40 years of singleness, God has been teaching me many things that I needed to know and apply before this next step of marriage. Sometimes I've listened and obeyed; sometimes...

Pondering the Murder of a Murderer
Dr. George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who performed abortions in the last three months of a woman's pregnancy, was recently shot and killed in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas, where he served as an usher....