Things I’ve Learned Along the Way: Part One

Today on this Memorial Day, when we celebrate friends and family who have fallen and will never again get up, I found myself reminiscing about the good and bad decisions I’ve made in my life — things that moved me along this mortal coil of life, for better and worse. Life is too short for living in the past, as they say — for reveling in the glory days or regretting lost years –but perhaps not for rueful memories that might bear instruction for others. To this end, I am beginning a new sporadic series here at AUFS called “Things I’ve Learned Along the Way.”

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If you began your academic life in religious studies at an explicitly evangelical institution of higher learning, and if you have aspirations to continue this life in any professional sense, either (a) remain an open evangelical for the duration, or (b) abandon evangelicalism by the time you start graduate school.