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Steve Benson: “It dawned on me that I could merge my faith and my studies.”

benson_steve.jpg“I went to college with a basic understanding of who Christ was and what my faith meant—that is, not a lot,” says Steve Benson. “My life and my faith were two totally separate things, and freshman year, I lived that way. I went to church on Sundays, but every other day was mine to do with as I pleased. Bill and Allie helped me understand that it needed to affect my school life, how I wrote my papers, my social life, everything. I majored in criminal justice and political science, and at Jubilee, Byron Borger put a book called Crime and Its Victims by Paul Van Ness into my hands. That book changed the way I thought about the criminal justice system, and it finally dawned on me that I could merge my faith and my studies.”

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