The Religious Freedom Institute announced last week that it was launching the Campus Faith Alliance group, which will be found at several universities this fall.
RFI President David Trimble told The Christian Post that the Campus Faith Alliance was created in response to “growing challenges for students of faith.”
Trimble pointed to the widespread unrest and antisemitism on display on campuses last spring, especially at elite universities, as one of the reasons his group was formed.
In addition to the obvious signs of persecution, Trimble also noted “a variety of more subtle pressures that undermine students in living out their faith on campus and their opportunities to learn how to model peaceful pluralism in society during this formative time in life.”
Several schools will have pilot chapters of the Alliance, with RFI facilitating the student group’s events in cooperation with other religious student organizations on campus.
Trimble also noted that “People of faith are increasingly pushed to the margins of American society, and this marginalization is occurring with even greater intensity on public university campuses.”
He also blamed government policies that challenge those who are vocal about their faith.
Trimble called it “… a pernicious conception of radical individual autonomy… that is displacing foundational American principles of God-given human dignity and ordered liberty in our public life.”