<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/spring-2005/faith-education.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Faith in Education</title><excerpt>Michael and Sherill Bryan hoped their oldest son would attend a Christian college, but they knew he needed to choose a school himself. “It was a prayer thing because we really wanted him at Westmont,” Sherill says. “We had heard nothing but great things about the academic program and networking with alumni — and I knew he needed to be confronted with the word of God on a daily basis. When he got accepted we tried not to be too delighted. It was a God thing.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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