Land: Ivy League experiencing revival

DALLAS?”There is a spiritual revival going on at the Ivy League campuses of America,” Richard Land told the audience at Criswell College during his lecture series there Jan. 29-31.

Land told students he was up late the night of Jan. 30 preparing a written testimony for a book about committed Christians from Ivy League schools. Land, a Houston native, is a Princeton alumnus.

“When I was at Princeton it was like I was an alien creature from a faraway planet being an evangelical Christian,” Land said of his experience there in the 1960s. “Most of my classmates didn’t know what an evangelical Christian was. They didn’t know what born-again was, and they wanted to know if I handled snakes.

“? And today, in a student body of about 5,500 students, there are about 1,000 Princeton students involved in weekly Bible studies. It’s amazing to see what is going on. It’s going on at Princeton, it’s going on at Harvard, at Yale, at Brown and all of the Ivy League schools and many other schools.”
Land said while reflecting on his upbringing, “I had to stop and bow my head and thank the Lord for the many people God has sent into my life and has used in a wonderful way, beginning with my mother.”

“I was led to the Lord with a backyard Good News Club,” recounted Land, noting his memory of seeing flannel board Bible stories as a young child.