challenged, reviewed and resecured."⁶⁷Undergraduate students should

critique themselves, their world views, their congregations and

denominations, their faiths, and their ethical frameworks, and can do so

effectively through study-abroad. They should, in effect, shaketheir

foundations, but they need not discardthem. Some will, no doubt, revise

considerably their prior foundational understandings and commitments, and a

few will remove them fully. But what may be hoped for is an appropriate

shaking which will allow students to value that which is good and truthful

about their particular traditions and stories, and to hold to their reconstructed

worldviews-in-process with greater humility and more openness than before.

International education provides an avenue toward such transformation.

Study abroad need not supersede nor supplant a college's church-relatedness.

Nor should the seemingly inevitable movement toward postmodernism -- a

movement which international education may further -- unduly threaten an

institution of higher education's religious affiliation. Appropriately embedded

and administered, international education in a postmodern world may sustain

and even strengthen a church college's ties to its founding denomination.

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