Going off to college can be an unsettling experience for Christian students. Somewhere, sometime, college students are going to encounter, and many for the first time, the notion that there is no such thing as absolute truth. Truth with a capital “T.”

We may wish that the situation could be otherwise. Parents may especially wish, after all they’ve invested in trying to instill positive values in their children, that the college experience would reinforce rather than undermine whatever they’ve been able to accomplish in this regard. But to keep this in a certain perspective, just think for a moment of what else college students could be doing, besides considering whether or not there is such a thing as absolute truth. Don’t the alternatives seem worse? My point is that to some extent I thi…