Christian Schools Must Teach International Relations Differently

Most colleges and universities, including Christian ones, require at least one modern International Relations (IR) theory class for a degree in political science. Baylor University, my alma mater, is no exception. Yet today, I question the value of teaching students a series of IR theories that claim to be the best explanatory frameworks in existence—and which fail to predict anything of significance in the real world. Just as with critical theory in the humanities, the implicit message these theories convey to students is one of nihilism.