Trump and his allies are betting on that Transgress In academic circles, you will achieve a political victory, regardless of economic pain or the results of the courtroom. Based on the polls, you may be right. Last year, according to Gallup, only 36 percent of Americans He said They had a “lot” or “a lot” of confidence in higher education – about 20 points since 2015.
Churches have a similar PR problem. About the same percentage of Americans He says They put great confidence in the organized debt (a decrease of approximately 60 percent since a generation). In contracts since The Vietnam War, the Americans’ faith in all kinds of large institutions Collapse.
But modern data has brought a development: churches have a small but important onion recoveryEspecially among young people. Perhaps they have achieved the generation of the millennium and the Zoomers depleted peak with no meaning to pass the Tiktok. maybe Youth Among them are looking for an alternative to the message of secular media that they are guilty of “toxic masculinity” until they are proven innocent.
In an era when the White House press secretary Advertise Freezing financing on “Wokeness” while showing off a giant cross necklace, easy to assume that traditional Christianity and secular academy are permanent enemies, on both sides of some civilizational insects. But in reality, the destinies of churches and universities have long been Intertwined. For academics who are struggling with how to restore general confidence, there are amazing lessons in the recent Christian emission – and perhaps a non -intuitive strategy to convert the current campaign to paralysis of universities and insult to an occasion to restore basic ideas about the purpose of higher education.
In the two decades after World War II, Churches and Universities Both wander around Zenith from the cultural influence. The Americans tended to trust experts, whether they were bidding from a pulpit or lecturers in front of the blackboard. It may be difficult to imagine now, but at the time like the theologians NERDY like Reneen Nipurand Paul TelicAnd Henry B. Van Dossin Cover grown time, Democratic presidential campaigns bought great ads in New York Times To show the approvals they received from university professors. Even the Republicans received the support of the university “Egheads”. During the 1960 presidential elections, the Republican National Committee – disgusting to John F. Kennedy, “brain accumulation” – a political world in Stanford called Cornellius B. Cotter to persuade more faculty members that the Republican Party was a “dangerous intellectual institution”.