Education as a Way of Loving God

What college has to do with learning to pray

There are many different types of Christian colleges, and even more ways that individual Christians approach the work of college. But if they are meaningfully Christian, shouldn’t each model and every approach somehow help those who follow Jesus to fulfill his greatest commandments?

…one of [the Pharisees], an expert in the law, asked [Jesus] a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 22:34-40

I’ve been thinking about this question for a couple of months now — it’s meant to frame the first of four chapters in my College for Christians guide that suggest questions that any Christian should seek to answer in college.

How can college help me to love God and love my neighbor as myself? Let me try out one answer on my Substack readers: By teaching us how to pray.