Discuss Theology

Christianity Today chronicled the recent discussions at Calvin College concerning various sexual behaviors. It struck me that orthodox Christian colleges are now facing the kinds of questions that other Universities and colleges faced a couple of decades back. I remembered my sojourn at Gordon Conwell a few years back and something Francis Schaeffer said about cultural lag. Basically the church lags the culture by a couple of decades. You see this in many things. I recently looked at a few old clips of Italian movies from the ’60’s, ’70’s, and 80’s. All of the dismal topics explored there are now being explored in the church and in the states in our contemporary milieu. Cultural lag exists and Calvin College is now experiencing it.