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University of Texas professor J. Budziszewski has answers and advice for today’s college students | Marvin Olasky

Kevin Vandivier

Readers of WORLD regularly see ads from a Worldview Academy showing a devilishly handsome professor/model under a headline like "Who is teaching your daughter theology?" The ad notes the importance of teaching students to be biblically discerning.

If a magazine called Atheist World ran ads portraying its real-life troublesome adversaries, University of Texas professor J. Budziszewski might be public enemy No. 1. He listens well, speaks softly, and carries a big but not arrogant intellect into discussions with both professorial peers and students.

JB—last name pronounced Boojee-shef-skee—has left some atheists gnashing their teeth with his scholarly books and also his hot-selling How to Stay Christian in College. Now he's increased his infamy by producing the second of a series, Ask Me Anything 2 (Navpress, 2008). He amusingly calls himself Professor Theophilus of the School of Antinomianism at Post Everything University, which has its motto, "You shall not know the truth, and doubt will set you free."