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How to Keep Your Faith While in College

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How To Keep Your Faith While in College is a great springboard for discussion. Dr. Morey outlines briefly many questions that young adults should ask about their understanding of their personality/character, faith, and world view. It is very important to have thought about this BEFORE college because once you get there a battle will have started for your minds and the opposition doesn't always fight fair.

The book in some ways is very simple and very complex in others. I liked the fact that Dr. Morey asks many practical questions. For example, how does one determine their self worth? How do we know we are saved? Are all religions the same? Is truth relative? Although this tiny book cannot possibly cover all of these topics in detail, the collection of such questions is very helpful. On the other hand there is a long discussion about cults, existentialism and the like. When I was a teenager I had no idea about these things, so reading them for the first time in a book like this is confusing. But making sure that a young adult is aware of these things is very critical because students will be exposed to relativism, even if it is never called this.

This might not be the best book for the teenager to read; for this reason I feel reluctant to give 5 stars. But the topics covered are without question essential for the college-bound young adult. College has become a battleground for the hearts and minds of young adults. Reading and discussing this book with your youth-group and/or parents is a great way to make sure that these same young adults are not taken captive by vain philosophy.

Morey has written extensively on the topics of apologetics and practical theology, and serves as a good candidate to write a book such as this. The book is a quick read for an adult, but could be a little bouncy for young adults. However, the material in this book should be standard in youth groups! Young adults would do well to study this book.