Well, that’s one. Contrast that with the 21 scholarships for African-American students offered by Barak Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ. http://www.tucc.org/scholarships.htm
instead of placing them in institutions that are openly hostile to everything we believe in to be relegated to the college underclass where they will receive marginal educations at best.
How sadly ironic, the state of the once Christian institutions of this country. God’s righteous judgment upon an unfaithful and wicked people I suppose.
Every $ counts to some students. Several little scholarships can build up to enough money to pay for a year or more of college.
Regarding New St. Andrews College, some of our friends might have some reservations about the school and its founding pastor, Doug Wilson. The Federal Vision thing (salvation = grace + works) and all that.
A possibly productive line of thinking for us might include the college experience as a whole, including which Christian colleges might be healthier places for our children when they hit college age; whether college is a necessity for craft or mechanically-minded students to begin with (the whole trade school or apprenticeship idea); how best to educate young women who will face the challenge of homeschooling their own children one day.
NSA has been around for a few years. I think the Federal Vision thing has been developing at Doug Wilson’s church (and others, like Auburn Ave. Presbyterian) as the college has been developing. So whether the college itself is a Federal Vision “project” is one thing, but it’s bound to have some influence there.
God bless,
Laurel
p.s. Check out the new topic on college and kinist kids.
We need to do more. We should be sending kids to schools like this:
New Saint Andrews College
instead of placing them in institutions that are openly hostile to everything we believe in to be relegated to the college underclass where they will receive marginal educations at best.
Actually, I know a guy who is currently attending NSA, and let me say that NSA is *not* a top of the line college, and as an institution they are openly opposed to everything we believe in. Doug Wilson founded the school, and Wilson is almost violently opposed to Kinism, and had the old Little Geneva site listed under his “moonbats” category on Blog & Mablog.
Additionally, NSA is one of the basions of the Federal Vision philosophy that is eating away at the Reformed world. Wilson penned a book a few years ago, “Reformed is Not Enough,” that was an absolute rejection of the Reformed understanding. Wilson is a plagiarist, a sacerdotalist, a wolf in sheep’s clothing that is leading many away with this “objectivity of the covanant” idea, and hangs with people like Peter Leithart who will write such anti-Christian books as “Against Christianity.” (I own this book, and have read it.)
Be very, very leery of anything coming out of Moscow Daniel...I’ve been there, I’ve attended Wilson’s church, and I have friend’s who are currently attending NSA...Moscow and Co are opposed to any racial awareness.
[ Edited: 16 March 2008 09:28 PM by Kriegerwulff ]
Gosh, that whole proofreading thing has not yet left me…
I really appreciate your input on the NSA, Doug Wilson, Federal Vision thing, KW, because you have been there and you know from experience what it’s like.
Absolutely, darling...or once a “grammar critic”, always a “grammar critic”. We tend to breed them in our family. My mom, then me, then my daughter. Of course, we never dared critique dad’s writing…
But in most circumstances, you could just call us dang picky…
Well that seems to put an end to the idea of attending New Saint Andrews and it seems that we will end up being attacked from the left, the secular right, the “religious right,” from within Orthodox Reformed circles and from unorthodox Reformed circles.
Do not become discouraged and give up on your education. The last thing we need is discouraged Kinist young men who give up on their educational futures. There are ways to get a decent education, not perfect, but decent. And you may have to fight indoctrination of one sort or another.
But no one said this was going to be easy.
We appreciate your willingness to be counted among us and to work for a better future for our people.
