The Promise & Peril of College as a Christian: A Talk with Molly Worthen
Thu, Jan 22
|Winston-Salem
Join us at The Study Center for a conversation with Molly Worthen!
Time & Location
Jan 22, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Winston-Salem, 1203 Polo Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, USA
Guests
About the event
College can nurture the life of the mind, giving Christians insights and stories that genuinely nurture faith, vocation and intellectual flourishing. This strengthens us as disciples of Jesus Christ. College can also erode our Christian imagination and faith as competing narratives challenge the gospel. Join us for a conversation with Molly Worthen, a religious historian at UNC, to hear about these promises and perils. She will speak personally as a former skeptic who encountered Jesus and became his disciple.
Molly Worthen is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a freelance journalist. She received her BA and PhD from Yale University. Her research focuses on North American religious and intellectual history. Her most recent book, Spellbound (2025), is a history of charisma as both a religious and a political concept from the Puritans to the Trump era. Apostles of Reason (2013) examines American evangelical intellectual life since 1945, especially the…