Awaken Church in San Diego — part of a Christian movement that seeks to shape American society – is launching a “university.” Training schools are part evangelical history, Richard Flory tells the Times of San Diego.
A religion expert at the University of Southern California sees Awaken U as part of a long history of evangelical and Pentecostal groups starting training schools — sometimes called colleges or universities.
Flory further elaborates that:
“This is one of the latest that I’ve heard of,” said the expert — Richard Flory, executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture.
