The Engineer Has Forgotten to Pray | A Christian STEM College for Huntsville

Huntsville runs on brains. Redstone Arsenal, NASA, Research Park, the defense and aerospace contractors. Throw a rock and you hit an engineer. Whoever forms those minds shapes the future of the city, and through it the state.

Right now those minds are formed almost entirely in secular institutions. Jason Cherry wants to change that.

Cherry is the board chairman of New Trinity Foundation, which is working to establish New Trinity College in Huntsville: a Christian liberal arts college built around STEM rather than beside it. He sits down with Bryan Dawson to make the case.

His diagnosis is that American higher education has been cut in half. "The engineer has forgotten how to pray, and the poet has forgotten how to count." Two kinds of half-educated people, each needing what the other has. The word university comes from a Latin root meaning 'turned into one,' and by that standard, he argues, most universities are universities in name only. The physics department and the English department share a parking lot, a football team, and almost nothing else.

He also tells the story of how Trinity Reformed Church started in a backyard with fifty people in lawn chairs during the 2020 shutdowns and now has nearly 600 members across two sites.

TOPICS TACKLED:

A church planted in a backyard during the 2020 shutdowns, and what grew out of it
Why a math and science town is the right place for a Christian STEM college
"The engineer has forgotten how to pray, and the poet has forgotten how to count"
Universities in name only: what the word actually means and why the modern version fails its own test
The creed every department on a secular campus shares, whether or not it says so
Why siloed education may be throttling innovation, from Kepler to Heisenberg
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter," and what Plato was actually saying
Huntsville's growth, its transplants, and what keeps a city from drifting
Alabama's higher education ranking, and the private college gap with Florida

CONNECT:

New Trinity Foundation: https://www.newtrinityfoundation.org
Jason Cherry's books and writing: https://www.jasoncherrybooks.com
Trinity Reformed Church, Huntsville: https://trinityreformedhuntsville.wordpress.com
His op-ed in 1819 News: https://1819news.com/news/item/jason-cherry-why-alabama-needs-a-new-college

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