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Summary: Outstanding; not just for the college student!
Review: Concise, focused, and practical, this book aims at the key issues Christian college students will face in school and hits the target. More than that, Prof. Budziszewski provides steps of action for responding to questions, arguments, and objections from fellow students or faculty logically and respectfully. What makes this book even more valuable is that it is equally useful in the workplace. Let's face it: how many of us had all of our truly important questions answered in college? Working folks have many of the same concerns and issues covered in the book, and the recommended approaches for dealing with them are just as helpful.
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Summary: An essential for any up-and-coming college goer
Review: First off, a note on how to pronounce this guy's last name, which is so helpfully provided at the end of the book: It's Boojee-shefski. There, got that? Took ME long enough!This book is an essential, and not only for Christians or homeschoolers, but anyone about to enter college. Seeing as how I'm a high school senior now, I found this book excellent prep for what I know I'm getting ready to go through. In a short 140 pages, J. Budziszewski provides in-depth analysis and information for what to expect in college, and how to deal with it. He discusses how to hang tight to what you know is right, even when close friends, roommates, and peer groups don't. He offers insight on how to cope with non-Christian friends, and counteracts common campus myths, most of them the kind a Christian freshman might not know how to deal with. He shoots down myths and smokescreens that often render Christians a little lost as to how to respond, even when they know there IS an answer) and brilliantly refutes such myths as moral relativism, atheism, etc. He offers advice on how to deal with relationships, both friendship and the Deeper Kind, in a chapter that most students will flip right to: Myths about Love and Sex. He offers refreshing encouragement that you CAN stick to your morals and remain chaste in college, and that it's not only obeying God, but rewarding in its own right! Budziszewsky also hits (briefly) on political issues, something that few can avoid in today's campus life. Finally, he sums it all up by discussing WHY all this is important, and highlights the fact that you should fit college into God's plan, not God into college plans. He leaves us with a reminder that we are given a purpose in life, a unique meaning of serving the Lord, and how everything around us factors into Eternity, whether we realize it or no. In case you haven't figured out already, I think this book is brilliant, masterful, and a comprehensive must-have for any up-and-coming collegian. Parents, your sons and daughters are missing out if you don't get this for them. Students, if you can spare the money, this book is guaranteed to give new meaning and purpose into your collegian existence.
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Summary: Christian in College
Review: I enjoyed this book, because everything the author said God was the center. I believe that is the most important thing. I agreed with almost everything the author said. I have not yet experienced college, but by reading this book, it helped me see what college is going to be like and how it will be difficult to stay strong in God's Word. Friends that I will be with all the time can bring my focus off God. That is not what I want! The author quotes, "Sometimes old friends grow closer at college, but sometimes they grow apart." This is also something I do not want, but if my friends are pulling me away from my focus on God, then I think I can stand a little away form the crowd. God is much more important to me than my friends. That does not mean I do not care about my friends, but God is my focus. J. Budziszewski asks the question, "How can you stand firm?" It says in Romans 12:2, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." I know it will be difficult to stand firm, but if we obey God's Word and pray, it should not be hard. I would recommend this book to you because I think it would really help understand that going to college is not as easy as people make it sound. I think it will be fun, but it really is important that you have your priorities straight. God is the Almighty King and He really cares about every one of us. Keep your FOCUS!!
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Summary: review of How to Stay Christian in College
Review: I found this book helpful and enjoyable to read. J. Budziszewski has a lot to say yet it was not confusing. His ideas are not only for people who plan to or are already in college, they can help out any Christian. He gives very good advice for understanding and defending your faith, which is something all Christians should know. He knows what he is talking about, too, because he fell for some of the lies that the world tells us while he was in college. Knowing some of the things I will come across helps me to better understand how improtant it is for me to figure out now what I believe and stick to it. He does not say that going to a Christian college is the best way to stay Christian. Not everyone wants to go one and I think more people need to accept that and not press it so much. The final chapter is helpful too because it is hard to remember that our lives are not our own but belong to God. There were some parts I did not agree with but overall I found this book to be very insightful and easy to read. Christians of all stages in their relationships can get something out of reading this.
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Summary: In response to ad101867
Review: I must, as a christian, disagree with the user who wrote that the Catholic Church has a great deal obscured the gospel by way of their man made traditions. I have spent my whole life as a protestant christian, but now i am in the process of converting to catholicism. Why, one might ask? Because it is true. I agree that the bible could be obscured by man made traditions, however, the writer forgot to consider the fact that maybe the traditions are not man made, but God made. I recall St. Paul exhorting Christians to hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or by our epistle "2. thess 2:15." Paul meant the traditions of the apostles, and that is EXACTLY the tradition that the Catholic Church follows. One must read the writings of the early church to discover what the shape of Christinaity really was like, otherwise they will be guilty of ignorance. So to say that the Pope is not an example of true Christianity is absolute folly. If indeed he is Peter's successor( given that peter was the first pope or bishop of rome,) which is made apparent by the writings of the early church and the clear teaching of the bible, then one should not be so presumptuous. I choose to follow the bible, not man made traditions of protestantism or anything else for that matter, such as sola scripture, sola fide, and the real absence in the eucharist. As the author of the book says, Follow Christ! That entails submitting to his will, and consequently His Church and spreading his good news, not our own ideas and presuppositions. May the Peace of Christ be with those entering college and with all. I would reccomend this book to everyone. And to anyone that is interested in the shape of early christianity and how to defend their faith: Penguin books has a generic early church writings book called, simply, "early church writings." Read eusibius, and ignatius of antioch, polycarp, Iraneus, and foremost the holy scriptures...In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity
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Summary: evans play house
Review: I really enjoyed this book, very helpful in my walk with God.
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Summary: KEEPING YOUR FAITH
Review: I think this book is well written and composed. It gives Christian a good understanding of what they should expect from their professors and how they as Christians should respond. Keeping your faith in college is harder than it ever has been before, and this book points out thoes facts plain and simple. It also gives practical advice and knowledge for the student who is either struggling, or may be soon. The casual format of writing helps keep the reader attentive and allert to the points that the author is making. The book overall was enjoyable, interactive, and insightful. It would really help a young Christian who plans on leaving for collage any time soon.
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Summary: KEEPING YOUR FAITH
Review: I think this book is well written and composed. It gives Christian a good understanding of what they should expect from their professors and how they as Christians should respond. Keeping your faith in college is harder than it ever has been before, and this book points out thoes facts plain and simple. It also gives practical advice and knowledge for the student who is either struggling, or may be soon. The casual format of writing helps keep the reader attentive and allert to the points that the author is making. The book overall was enjoyable, interactive, and insightful. It would really help a young Christian who plans on leaving for collage any time soon.
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Summary: Ryan Habib's review to How to Stay a Christian in College.
Review: I think this book was an awesome book and I am so glad that I got the opportunity to read it. I think that it is a great book because there is no guarantee that you won't face challenges in your faith as a Christian. I think this book was an exceptional directory for a Christian who goes to a secular college. It serves as a great example for anyone dedicated to Jesus Christ. This book really helped me to see college in a different way other than how the world sees it. It talks about the dangers that we will encounter throughout college and how to defend our faith when we are questioned or attacked. I would definitely recommend this book to every Christian high school in the United States. I have gained an understanding of how God looks at the world and how colleges look at the world. This book shows us how there are different world religions other than Christianity and how to defend our faith. Another way this book teaches us how to be better Christians is to be quiet when there is a Professor who can outsmart you and tell you what you believe in is wrong. Finally, this book was really insightful in that it taught me when and more importantly how to stand up for what I believe in. --Ryan Habib
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Summary: Matt Moyers review for How to stay a Christian in College
Review: I think this book was an excellent guide for a Christian who goes to a secular college or even a Christian college. This book tells the truth of how college really is and how to deal with the issue. I think that this book is honest and trustworthy book in telling the reader what college is like. I would definitely recommend this book to Christians who need help in defending their faith, because in college there will be people who will question and disagree with your faith and I need to be ready to stand up for what I believe in. This book talks a lot about the myth of the search for knowledge, love, sex, and politics. All of these myths are important to the young people who want to go to college. Most importantly this book has helped me in my walk with God and Jesus Christ. It tells me about the different religions that are on the college campus today. I really feel that this book has sharpened my faith in God's Holy Word. I am excited that I was able to read this great edge of your seat thriller, and share it with my Christian and non-Christian friends. Finally, I learned a lot from this book and I look forward to using it in the years to come. --Matt Moyer
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