Muddling About

“But studied neutrality is impossible, and obnoxious examples are cropping up more and more frequently, in fulfillment of a collegial application of the dictim that a man who doesn’t stand for something will fall for anything. We now find the Zeitgeist appearing in raunchy requirements for classes, ‘revivals’ that resemble group therapy confessionals, and urbane professorial ‘muddling about’ with postmodern relativism. And then top it all off with the fact that Wheaton even has an Office of Minority Affairs. At Leviathan U, the Christian students are wary and know that the faculty are largely in the employ of old slewfoot. But at Wheaton, the Billy Graham Center is right across the street, the jargon is full of all the right God-words, and revivals that don’t change a damn thing still manage to appear with some regularity” (The Paideia of God, p. 114).