My internship with RUF is complete. It seems like the last two years were both very long and very short. But while it’s good to think about the past, my hope is in the future, in the return of Christ in the fullness of His kingdom, and so I keep my eyes fixed on that day and press on towards it.
While Texas A&M students were taking their last five weeks of classes for the spring semester, I was sitting on campus in Academic Plaza for about six hours every school day with a sign taped to a chair that said, “Discuss Religion.” On the first day I went out there, I brought a book with me just in case no one showed up to talk. That was the last day I brought a book with me. Within five minutes on that first day, people started showing up.
People of all different religious perspectives came to the discussions for the next five weeks: atheists, agnostics, pantheists, panentheists, existentialists, Muslims, deists, and all sorts of Christians. I had come up with the idea to do this because I thought that people in our culture really wanted a place they could go to talk about religion publicly, a sort of open forum, and that they didn’t have such a place available.
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