Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash Why I apologized to my son Today, I did something I never thought I would need to do. I said sorry to my son for the false understanding of Christianity we have been presenting to him. No, I didn’t confess a terrible personal sin, nor was I showing remorse for some offense against him, though I am far from perfect in my Christian walk and need continued repentance. But as we talked about issues in the news on the short drive to his school this morning, I felt compelled to apologize to my 18-year-old on behalf of a generation of Christians who have left him (and others in his age group) perplexed and confused about what following Jesus means. And because I teach young people in a Christian university, I know he is not alone in this befuddlement. With our youth and young adults spending so much time learning about the world through social media, the images of Christianity they have seen everyday on t...