Our day on campus of Cedarville was a very productive, welcoming day. I had good thoughts about the visit from the beginning, as both of my amazing hosts, Sarah and Jason both had contacted me a few days before the visit and I was able to see they were genuine people and very nice. The day began with us having breakfast with our hosts and having a short time to get to know each other, before we all got tours of the Student Center, which is the building where we spent the day. From there, we went into the Theater and talked a little about ourselves and spoke some about the ride (most people had Bob Jones Questions). Then we broke up into 4 different groups. One group went to a class on Human Sexuality, one to a class on Christian Worldview Integration (my class), one went to speak with faculty and the other went to a sociology class. My class, the Christian Worldview Integration class, was very interesting, as I honestly had no idea what to expect. We spent the first hour breaking the ice and talking about toothpaste. I had no idea that people were such big fans of foam, but apparently foam is something that many people look for in toothpaste. After that, we discussed morals written into law and had a few scenarios set up for us to see how we felt on the issue. Overall, it was very interesting; I just wish we could have stayed there longer. From there, we moved to Chucks and had lunch with a bunch of my host’s friends, which was really fun. Then we all headed down to the theater again and the Spiritual Violence group did their presentation. From what I was able to tell, it was well received by students. Because I have seen it to many times, it is hard for me to tell ho the presentation went, but others seemed to enjoy it. I left the theater for a few minutes and then went back to the theater for a panel discussion. Overall, I was very pleased with how this turned out. We had an especially short amount of time for questions at the end, however I think the few questions that were asked got the ball rolling for after the panel. We went to eat and we decided to go back to the second panel discussion, which I am glad we did. The actual panel was the same, however the questions after it were different and it was good to see both sets of questions, I think.
From there, I had to part from my wonderful and amazing hosts and all the Riders and faculty got together to talk about how the day went. Overall, we all agreed that the day was a very fruitful day. It was interesting, because one of the faculty made a comment about how he was worried that the friendship between the school and soulforce would not continue after and this was the first time that we had ever heard a school talk about our relationship afterwards, so it was great that he was talking about that.
We are now back in our hotel room and after conducting many scientific surveys, we are all absolutely exhausted. I don’t know what it was about this stop, but it seemed to have tired everyone out.
The Ride is almost over and I don’t really know what to do with that.
In a few minutes, photos will be here.
Love,
Adam Britt