Erskine College & Seminary


Erskine Commencement


Graduating college and seminary students were honored at Erskine College


 under the towers of the Erskine Building on the Due West campus. This year’s commencement speaker was best-selling author ,


  -  small topics.”


Commencement speaker Eric Metaxas.


     news for anyone daring to open their hearts and minds to him,” the speaker told the gradu-  to him, you only then begin to know what joy feels like, what meaning feels like, what pur- pose feels like.”  graduating from a Christian col-      task of clinging to your rickety Christian faith out there in the


real world,” but this defensive approach ought to be rejected. Either the Chris-  If it’s true, it applies everywhere.” 


problem of morality in the absence of God, he encouraged students who are Christians to live out their faith and        should have the guts to look at it.” Metaxas, who became a committed Christian a few years after his own college graduation, said he wrote        been piling up” since the famous     slightly smaller or larger, it would not have the life-sustaining atmosphere  science, the more we see evidence of      does not make sense if everything is just happening randomly,” he said.  the less possible it becomes to be- lieve the secular narrative that life emerged from non-life through natu- ral random processes,” he said, add- 


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The Associate Reformed Presbyterian


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