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Over the last three decades many evangelicals have come to view college and university faculty with suspicion. Professors are perceived to be diehard secularists, anti-religious and opposed to any and all expressions of Christianity on campus. Are these perceptions true? Just what is the religious atmosphere of the typical faculty lounge? Current research has found the following: • Not all professors are atheists and agnostics. It probably would not be a stretch to say that many evangelicals believe that faculties consist mainly of godless pagans. “A common perception of the college or university professor is that she or he is an atheist who rejects religion in favor of science or critical inquiry,” said Neil Gross and Solon Simmons, assistant professors of sociology at Harvard University and George Mason University, respectively.
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