College students often get a bad rap when it comes to their faith. They’re often cited as the age group that leaves the church in droves or is less religious overall. But the director of one of the largest Christian student missions conferences wants to clarify some things.
Ruth Hubbard is the director of Urbana 2018. Since 1946, this global event led by InterVarsity has drawn some 300,000 people, mainly college students. She recognizes that students who are around 18 or 19 years old start “asking a lot of hard questions about the faith of their parents and grandparents, where they are wondering ‘are all the things that their parents and grandparents held as being part of the faith really what God intended?'”
But that’s natural, Hubbard told The Christian Post.
“College is an age where most of us begin to say, ‘I need to push away from what my parents have always taught me, and analyze it for myself.’ There is a natural kind of skepticism or questioning that is true for younger adults,” she said.
And while many students do reject the Christian faith, or at least some aspects of it, Hubbard clarified that a lot of times what they’re rejecting is…
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