A place to snark and vent about CoC doctrine and/or our experiences in the CoC. This is a place for SUPPORT and AGREEMENT only, not a place to tell someone their experience and feelings are wrong, or why we disagree with them.
I believe a big part of the problem with Pepperdine has to do with its location. California was bad enough as we all know it is "Sin Central" but when they built the new campus just barely off the beach in Malibu their "wayward people" reputation was sealed. Sharing a zip code with the likes of Johnny Carson and having those wild surfer boys and nearly naked beach bunnies doing the most evil thing of "mixed swimming" right in front of all those innocent college kid's eyes was just too much!
It didn't help any either that they had embraced Pat Boone fully and when they didn't kick him to the curb when the coc disfellowshipped him in 1971, the entire college became one giant apostate operation in the minds of most coc congregations.
God gave us dogs so we would understand love, and then gave us cats so we could comprehend serving others.
JKendallDane wrote:I believe a big part of the problem with Pepperdine has to do with its location. California was bad enough as we all know it is "Sin Central" but when they built the new campus just barely off the beach in Malibu their "wayward people" reputation was sealed. Sharing a zip code with the likes of Johnny Carson and having those wild surfer boys and nearly naked beach bunnies doing the most evil thing of "mixed swimming" right in front of all those innocent college kid's eyes was just too much!
It didn't help any either that they had embraced Pat Boone fully and when they didn't kick him to the curb when the coc disfellowshipped him in 1971, the entire college became one giant apostate operation in the minds of most coc congregations.
Women running around in bikinis never helps your case with the Church of Christ.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
JKendallDane wrote:I believe a big part of the problem with Pepperdine has to do with its location. California was bad enough as we all know it is "Sin Central" but when they built the new campus just barely off the beach in Malibu their "wayward people" reputation was sealed. Sharing a zip code with the likes of Johnny Carson and having those wild surfer boys and nearly naked beach bunnies doing the most evil thing of "mixed swimming" right in front of all those innocent college kid's eyes was just too much!
It didn't help any either that they had embraced Pat Boone fully and when they didn't kick him to the curb when the coc disfellowshipped him in 1971, the entire college became one giant apostate operation in the minds of most coc congregations.
I think that pretty much hits the nail on the head.
Pepperdine still maintains its C of C roots and connection. They still call their annual event the "Bible Lectures," while others have come up with more benign-sounding names. I went one time. Nice event, although it's organized with a little too much precision at times.
The campus is beautiful. Did you know the mountain behind the campus is in the opening segment to MASH? The footage for that is left over from the film, which was shot before the school moved to Malibu.