Message from Dr. Billy Graham
"Ideas have consequences." This familiar phrase seems to be a glimpse of
the obvious in the political arena but it is no less applicable in the
religious realm and in the academic world. And nowhere is its
application more evident than in the steady erosion of Christian belief
within the universities and other intellectual citadels of modern
society-a phenomenon at least partially a result of the fact that the
Christian community has perhaps not taken this dictum sufficiently
seriously. The situation is clearly anomalous in view of the fact that
modern science and the greatest thought-creations of the Western world
were born in the framework of the Judeo-Christian world-view and some of
the greatest thinkers of all time have seen no contradiction between
their Christian Faith and the fruits of their scholarship. Thankfully,
in recent years there has been a remarkable shift towards the Christian
Faith in the higher rungs of the academic world. At the very least,
Truth can play a significant role in reflecting this shift
towards faith. But, more important, it can help present the Christian
world-view-and Jesus Christ-with the aid of all the resources available
in modern thought. The battles that confront the Christian Faith in the
modern world must also be fought in the arena of ideas.