Relativism at Fuller

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For Kimberley Livesay, June 10 was a bittersweet day. That morning, she got her long coveted master's degree in marriage and family therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.

But like students WORLD talks with often, Kim Livesay says her experience with a Christian institution leaves her feeling troubled. "I went out of my way to find a school I thought would give me a Christian preparation for my work as a counselor," she says, "and I went $50,000 into debt." She says she's confused about what she got.

"Why," Kim asked me in conversations during her last semester at Fuller, "should I have to keep asking myself: 'Couldn't I have gotten this same education at Arizona State, where I could have lived at home and saved a whole lot of money?'"

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