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There was a time when Harvard was considered a holy place and Princeton trained prophets, when students and professors could not help but pray because certain questions could only be answered by an intellect greater than their own.

There was a time when students defied the status quo of their generation and engaged in sacrificial service that reshaped society and transformed culture.

There was a time...

God on Campus traces a remarkable legacy of spiritual awakening that stretches from the founding of the earliest colleges in the United States to a global movement of nonstop student prayer spreading across campuses today.

"This is a book to help you remember your roots," Trent Sheppard writes. "It tells the stories of ordinary people like you and me-bold and timid, brilliant and insecure, disillusioned and dangerous, ambitions and naive, holy and fallen, fearless and afraid-people who prayed, people who conspired together with their friends in faith and action, people who believed their lives could actually help shape the unfolding narrative of history."

Culminating in the Campus America movement to mobilize prayer on every college and university campus in the United States, God on Campus is an invitation for students to find their place in the story of God today.

Introduction 9

Part 1 Campus Foundations

1 Harvard's First Heretic: A History of Holy Rebellion 23

2 How Students Shape History: Old Oxford's Holy Club and New England's Great Awakening 36

3 Riots and Revival at Princeton: The Curious Case of the Modern Mind 51

Interlude: Reflections on Campus Foundations 64

Part 2 Student Movements

4 Praying Under a Haystack: Everyday Moments and Global Movements 71

5 Sacred Space and Civil War: Campus Transformation and Social Change 82

6 Learning to Live for the Impossible: The Mount Hermon One Hundred 94

7 Ivory Towers and Tongues of Fire: What Gold Can Never Buy 108

Interlude: Reflections on Student Movements 123

Part 3 Living Faith

8 When History Is Ripe for Change: Uprising at Columbia and the Great Experiment at Asbury 133

9 Prayer Is the Place to Begin: The Campus Ohio Story 148

10 When Our Prayers Become Practical: The Anatomy of Transformation 163

Afterword Pete Greig, 24-7 Prayer 179

Acknowledgments 185

Author's Note 187

About Campus America 188

Notes 189