Calvin College

Date: Apr 12 2012
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
I am a first-year at Calvin, after going to a small Christian school in the south-east and spending a little while at community college. I grew up in a Christian home, generally attending Baptist or nondenominational churches.

I have been wholeheartedly disappointed by the Christian climate at Calvin. My first week in my religion class (REL 121), my professor said, "You have to be like an ostrich with your head in the sand to ignore the evidence for evolution and believe in a 6-day creation." There is a strong push on campus for gender equity and acceptance for persons with non-traditional sexual preferences or self-identities. (a push for acceptance, not a push for Christ-like love; there are little to no references to Scripture in all of the various speeches, posters, workshops, etc. presented on the topic). The majority of my professors have been extremely liberal in their Scripture interpretations, theological beliefs, and social ideas. The icing on the cake is that all of this is presented in a way that makes me feel prejudiced against and pressured to change my beliefs.