Given a continuing decline in college age students,
given a rapidly secularizing culture, or at least one that is marginalizing religion, and
given a declining number of Christian families that actually want their children to learn a Christian worldview, Christian colleges and universities are experiencing considerable pressures threatening their survival. In addition, in the past few decades, American culture, especially in education, has embraced moral relativism and more recently, critical race theory and woke philosophies, along with the continuing sexual revolution. None of this bodes well for usually smaller, private avowedly Christian colleges and universities. With LGBTQ+ now being presented as a civil right by both activist groups and, often, the courts, this moral question is on collision course with freedom of religion rights in the First Amendment. This, too, threatens Christian institutions of higher learning.
