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PRESENTS

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow

From editor R. R. Reno: “The people under whom and with whom we study do far more to shape our vocations than systems.” From the archive, three authors consider how college admissions have changed, the loss of confessional commitment, and the nation’s theology programs.

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JUNE/JULY 2016 ● BY MARK BAUERLEIN

A LOSS OF TRUST ([link removed])

My generation assumed that going to a respected university would set us on a path toward maturity and prosperity.

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APRIL 1991 ● BY JAMES TUNSTEAD BURTCHAELL

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ([link removed])
Reformers unwittingly deprived their institutions of any capacity to retain their Christian identity when exposed to a secularist faculty.

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NOVEMBER 2010 ● BY R. R. RENO

SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ([link removed])

As St. Bonaventure warned, we must ground our life of study in prayer.

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