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You may also want to consider Spring Arbor University.

I looked at the link. I don't know anything about SAU, but if they are truly centered on serving the STUDENT without unnecessary distractions, I believe they can be successful. The great Universities focus on what is best for the STUDENTS and let greatness fall where it may, instead of trying to claw themselves to some lofty tier. No pun intended.

[aruanan]

SAU is a great place. It was where both Albion College and Hillsdale College had their beginnings. SAU and Hillsdale have gone in one direction, Albion, in the other; think Haverford of the middle west.

As far as how naturalism has taken over much of the intellectual world but for few exceptions--it's the difference that makes the difference. At one time the intellectual world was pagan; then for about 1500 years it wasn't. It's demonstable that science and technology, though known to the ancient pagans, lay fallow until they blossomed in a Judeo/Christian worldview that posited a real world that could be truly known. It's been the success of science that has served to keep naturalism alive, not vice versa. Some tales, such as naturalism, seem to think that they wag the dog. That's okay. They don't. And the degree to which they're unaware of their own history is the degree to which they're vulnerable. The danger, though, is that when they feel threatened, they'll attempt to use the power of the state, rather than argument, to defend their bailiwick and end up aping the church that they claim kept mankind in intellectual bondage.