Modern technology has enabled rapid communication with other countries and cultures. It allows someone from California to travel overnight to Shanghai or Berlin for a business meeting the next day. Or, that person could have a video call with business associates from these countries at the touch of a button. This heightened interconnectivity between countries shows that learning a foreign language is more important than ever in our global community.

Before I came to George Fox University (GFU), I held science and faith in two distinct categories. If they couldn’t touch each other, neither one could be proven false. I told myself that I could trust science on evolution and the Big Bang and simultaneously believe a literal translation of Genesis. College changed that.