I’m so excited for author Alex Solser, assistant professor of Bible and ministry at Montreat College, and Falls City Press as they release Learning to Love this week.
If you work with college students – especially on a Christian faith-based liberal arts campus – and you’re eager to equip them with a vision for why the college experience matters, this is the book to hand them.
I had the honor of reading an advanced copy, and here’s my endorsement!
Many of today’s college students are not sure why they’re in college or what their end goal should be (apart from gainful employment, important as that is). Alex Solser steps into this confusion and offers a compelling vision for Christian college education. With a keen awareness of the culture and a smart but relatable voice, Alex invites students to move from transaction to transformation as they put love for God and neighbor at the center of learning. This is a book I wish I had when I started my journey at a Christian liberal arts college decades ago, and—as someone who is passionate about preparing young people for a life of thriving after college—it’s one I’m eager to share!
Learn more about Alex Solser and his beautiful vision for liberal arts higher education here. According to Alex, the liberal arts are not servile arts. In other words, we should never reduce the liberal arts to the skills we develop to make us employable (important as those are), but rather see the liberal arts as intrinsically good and deeply important in and of themselves — for the “unfolding of our humanity,” engaging the “whole person,” and teaching us to “love rightly.” Yes, yes, and yes! I couldn’t agree more.
Order a copy for yourself and for the students you love here.
