Harvard Evangelicals

Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.

According to a recent report in the Harvard Crimson, a Harvard campus paper, the number of evangelical students there is on the rise.  According to the University President, the number of students who identify themselves as evangelical Christians on the campus has doubled in the last decade.  In addition in the last 30 or so years, the number of official chaplains connected with Harvard who identify themselves as evangelical has grown from zero to about half a dozen.

I find this to be an encouraging sign.  I know there are those who would say that Christian students don’t belong in a place like Harvard, but it seems to me that the more of them there are thriving on campuses like Harvard, the better chance our culture has at redemption.  Places like Harvard are where our future politicians, lawyers, doctors and influential businessmen come from, and the more of them there are who are wholly devoted to Christ, the better we will all be.

This has been Every Thought Captive.  I’m Phil Steiger pastor at Quail Lake Community Church, and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies.  For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.