A three-year grant of more than $981,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. has made this project possible.
Despite COVID challenges, research work has begun and will continue until fall 2022. This project builds on the 2004-2008 National Study of Campus Ministries Schmalzbauer was involved with previously.
Schmalzbauer, a religious studies professor, shares more about the study and its purpose.
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A new study will try to answer this question.
To find out the role religion plays on American college campuses today, Missouri State University’s Dr. John Schmalzbauer and his team of co-researchers are exploring the landscape of campus ministries across the country.
A three-year grant of more than $981,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. has made this project possible.
Despite COVID challenges, research work has begun and will continue until fall 2022. This project builds on the 2004-2008 National Study of Campus Ministries Schmalzbauer was involved with previously.
Schmalzbauer, a religious studies professor, shares more about the study and its purpose.
(#28).
This year, guest bloggers played a particularly important role in advancing conversations about evangelicalism. Abram Van Engen warned about those Christians’ uses of American national mythology
(#9), then published a follow-up dialogue with one of the people he’d criticized: Os Guinness
(#19). Peter Choi, meanwhile, was not convinced that evangelicalism was actually addressing the problems brought to light by the Trump years
(#15 see that post’s comments section for Peter’s back-and-forth with one of the famous pastors he mentioned).
Other visiting writers went beyond evangelicalism to draw on other strands in church history, as when Joey Cochran clarified the historical meaning of the word “heresy”