I was remind\u00aded how much our min\u00adistry mat\u00adters as I reflect\u00aded on two very dif\u00adfer\u00adent events at Stan\u00adford: the Ver\u00adi\u00adtas Forum and a cam\u00adpus Play\u00adboy shoot. The two played out like a real-life ver\u00adsion of truth or dare.<\/p>\n
First, truth. We were delight\u00aded to co-spon\u00adsor The Ver\u00adi\u00adtas Forum at Stan\u00adford<\/a>. We brought in lead\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals such as Dal\u00adlas Willard<\/a>, Gary Haber\u00admas<\/a>, and Michael Behe<\/a> to engage stu\u00addents and fac\u00adul\u00adty in dis\u00adcus\u00adsions about life\u2019s hard\u00adest ques\u00adtions and the rel\u00ade\u00advance of Jesus Christ. It was incred\u00adi\u00adble! The high\u00adlight for me was observ\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian philoso\u00adpher Dal\u00adlas Willard debate Richard Rorty<\/a>, one of the most influ\u00aden\u00adtial philoso\u00adphers in Amer\u00adi\u00adca today. The whole week was a pow\u00ader\u00adful reminder that the Chris\u00adt\u00adian faith is rea\u00adson\u00adable and wor\u00adthy of care\u00adful inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion.<\/p>\n But we went from truth to dare as Play\u00adboy came to town and stu\u00addents dis\u00adrobed to pose for the mag\u00ada\u00adzine\u2019s annu\u00adal col\u00adlege issue. The Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly urged read\u00aders to par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate, say\u00ading that prej\u00adu\u00addice against pornog\u00adra\u00adphy \u201cis an unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate prod\u00aduct of our soci\u00adety, and one that ought to be addressed.\u201d The edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal went on to make the case that Play\u00adboy was a high-class, upstand\u00ading lit\u00ader\u00adary mag\u00ada\u00adzine. (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n The dif\u00adfer\u00adence between the two events was inad\u00adver\u00adtent\u00adly summed up by a hope\u00adful mod\u00adel. When asked by a local paper about some con\u00adse\u00adquences of her deci\u00adsion to pose, she said, \u201cI guess I had\u00adn\u2019t thought it out too thor\u00adough\u00adly.\u201d (source<\/a>) <\/p>\n And so we\u2019ll keep spon\u00adsor\u00ading events like the Ver\u00adi\u00adtas Forum, we\u2019ll keep host\u00ading Bible stud\u00adies in the dorms, and we\u2019ll keep talk\u00ading about things like the reli\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of the Bible, because today\u2019s stu\u00addents des\u00adper\u00adate\u00adly need to be chal\u00adlenged to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was remind\u00aded how much our min\u00adistry mat\u00adters as I reflect\u00aded on two very dif\u00adfer\u00adent events at Stan\u00adford: the Ver\u00adi\u00adtas Forum and a cam\u00adpus Play\u00adboy shoot. The two played out like a real-life ver\u00adsion of truth or dare. First, truth. We were delight\u00aded to co-spon\u00ad\u00adsor The Ver\u00adi\u00adtas Forum at Stan\u00adford. We brought in lead\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cTruth Or Dare\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-5w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}