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RE: New Book for Christian Colleges Features Essay by Missouri Baptist University Author
New Book for Christian Colleges Features Essay by Missouri Baptist University Author
September 13, 2002
A new book widely distributed on Christian colleges campuses across North America this fall includes an essay by R. Alton Lacey, president of Missouri Baptist University.
Lacey’s contribution appears in College Faith: 150 Christian Leaders and Educators Share Faith Stories from Their Student Days, released in July by Andrews University Press. This book contains short personal testimonies and essays about faith lessons the writers learned while they themselves were students in higher education.
More than 40,000 copies of College Faith were sold to Christian colleges and bookstores in the first 12 weeks after the book’s release, according to Ronald Knott, director of Andrews University Press.
“We published this book because we believe administrators, teachers, staff, and students will be inspired by the simple faith stories people have to tell,” Knott said. “Higher education is the time when many people make formative faith decisions for good or ill. We think people ought to read simple but powerful stories like those told by Dr. Lacey.”
In College Faith, Lacey remembers arriving at the end of his college career and facing the need to make important decisions about the future, and what God did for him.
Besides Lacey, other writers for the book include the presidents of more than 60 Christian colleges, universities, theological seminaries, and Christian ministries. Among them are Bill Bright, founder and president of Campus Crusade for Chris; Alec Hill, president of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship; J. P. Moreland, professor of philosophy at Biola University; Mark A. Noll, professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College; the president of Baylor University, Pepperdine University, Fuller Theological Seminary, Azusa Pacific University, Trinity International University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and many others.
According to Knott, more than 35 institutions placed large orders for this book, with the plan to distribute the book free of charge to students and employees during the school year.
Timothy George, executive editor of Christianity Today and Dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University, says “College Faith is a book of encouragement for students everywhere, as well as for those who teach them, and for all those who love and pray for them.”
College Faith is available on-line at www.andrewsuniversitypress.com. Andrews University Press is the academic publishing authority of Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist doctoral-degree granting institution in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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