East Texas Baptist University Prepared Us for Trump’s America

East Texas Baptist University Prepared Us for Trump’s America

I imagine the after-hours activities for new student orientation at most colleges in the mid-1990s included drunken frat parties and breaking into campus rec centers for late-night swims and pickup basketball games. At my small, Christian liberal arts university, it involved simulating persecution and preparing for martyrdom. The Soviet Union had fallen, but stories of communist crackdowns on religious liberty still shaped our evangelical worldv…