Jonathan Lunde, instructor at Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois, writes:

This past semester, I was privileged to have working with me as an assistant one of our graduates from the biblical studies program at Trinity College. She had gone on to graduate school but had decided to take a year off to take stock of where she was at and where she was going. This student had been one who had wrestled deeply with issues of truth and faith while she was attending Trinity and after she graduated. We had had numerous discussions about these issues, and for a time I was not certain her evangelical faith would survive.

But this past semester, as we sat in my office discussing her journey, I rejoiced to perceive the gentle work of the Spirit in bringing her to a much more stable place. On one such occasion, I asked her what it was that had been most helpful in bringing her through to that place. Her answer surprised me. It was not some profound insight that she had been given along the way; it was not some new answer that had quieted the ranting of her heart. Rather, she said, "It was people." I asked her what she meant by that, and she explained that what helped her the most was being able to look at people whose intellectual lives were far in advance of hers, who had wrestled deeply with the same issues with which she was wrestling, but who were still people of vital, Christian faith.