<p>No equestrian program but Brandeis University might fit your needs although maybe too liberal an environment. There is a lot of flexibility within the core requirements but there are core requirements. When older d attended she did take several electives in the classics department. </p>
<p>Thomas Aquinas College also has the ‘great books’ curriculum.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr has an amazing classics program, so look into it. However, most LACs are very liberal, so whether it’s Vassar or Reed or Grinnell or Bryn Mawr, you wouldn’t find too many conservative voices.</p>
<p>Lawrence U might be a good fit for you. Meets all of your requirements except for it being a small rather than medium-sized school. They have a renown Freshman studies program that you would likely enjoy–a dozen students to a class studying great works with lots of discussion and a paper to write on each work.</p>
<p>Mount Holyoke seems to be very open-minded and accepting of all views, religious and political. And is a very supportive community. I’d recommend you visit (when school is in session!!!) to get a feel for it.</p>
<p>In regards to Sewanee: The University of the South, I know a number of people who attended there; including one of the assistant ministers of my church, who got her divinity degree there. I think that dadof1 and Overtheedge are closer to capturing the essence of the school and its views on religion; further, I’ve been there, and I don’t pick up an overly religious vibe at all. In fact, the thing that Sewanee students appear to be most “religious” about is drinking alcohol. To suggest that Sewanee is in the same category of Wheaton (IL), or Lee University, or Oral Roberts U., is simply wrong; it is excellent in its academics, and as Overtheedge notes, very tolerant of differing viewpoints about most things.</p>
<p>I’m going to respond to the rant-like post above. I have found Wheaton in Illinois to be a very academically serious place, and a place more respectful of differing viewpoints than many secular liberal arts institutions I have spent time at.</p>
<p>^ From the Wheaton College website:</p>
<p>"Statement of Faith</p>
<p>The doctrinal statement of Wheaton College, reaffirmed annually by its Board of Trustees, faculty, and staff, provides a summary of biblical doctrine that is consonant with evangelical Christianity. The statement accordingly reaffirms salient features of the historic Christian creeds, thereby identifying the College not only with the Scriptures but also with the reformers and the evangelical movement of recent years. The statement also defines the biblical perspective which informs a Wheaton education. These doctrines of the church cast light on the study of nature and man, as well as on man’s culture.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE in one sovereign God, eternally existing in three persons: the everlasting Father, His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, and the Holy Spirit, the giver of life; and we believe that God created the Heavens and the earth out of nothing by His spoken word, and for His own glory.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that God has revealed Himself and His truth in the created order, in the Scriptures, and supremely in Jesus Christ; and that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing, so that they are fully trustworthy and of supreme and final authority in all they say.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was true God and true man, existing in one person and without sin; and we believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there for us as Lord of all, High Priest, and Advocate.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that God directly created Adam and Eve, the historical parents of the entire human race; and that they were created in His own image, distinct from all other living creatures, and in a state of original righteousness.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that our first parents sinned by rebelling against God’s revealed will and thereby incurred both physical and spiritual death, and that as a result all human beings are born with a sinful nature that leads them to sin in thought, word, and deed.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE in the existence of Satan, sin, and evil powers, and that all these have been defeated by God in the cross of Christ.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, triumphing over all evil; and that all who believe in Him are justified by His shed blood and forgiven of all their sins.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God and are enabled to offer spiritual worship acceptable to God.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit indwells and gives life to believers, enables them to understand the Scriptures, empowers them for godly living, and equips them for service and witness.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE that the one, holy, universal Church is the body of Christ and is composed of the communities of Christ’s people. The task of Christ’s people in this world is to be God’s redeemed community, embodying His love by worshipping God with confession, prayer, and praise; by proclaiming the gospel of God’s redemptive love through our Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth by word and deed; by caring for all of God’s creation and actively seeking the good of everyone, especially the poor and needy.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE in the blessed hope that Jesus Christ will soon return to this earth, personally, visibly, and unexpectedly, in power and great glory, to gather His elect, to raise the dead, to judge the nations, and to bring His Kingdom to fulfillment.</p>
<p>WE BELIEVE in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting punishment of the lost, and the everlasting blessedness of the saved."</p>
<p>This statement makes it clear that the official position of Wheaton College is that anything which conflicts with the doctrine of biblical inerrancy has no place there. My reading of the mission statements of Lee University and ORU leads me to a similar conclusion.</p>
<p>This statement also does not suggest to me that the official position of Wheaton College is necessarily “respectful of differing viewpoints,” as you put it. To the extent that the students and faculty at Wheaton College there take a differing – and unofficial – position, I am not in a position to say.</p>
<p>^AlthoughWheaton is academically serious and academically respected (unlike Lee or ORU) and does include debate within the conservative Christian vs. evangelical Christian community, it is not a place for an atheist or someone who thinks evangelical Christian beliefs aren’t truth. Applying requires agreeing with a statement of faith and parts of your application check that you are serious about it, so it is about the opposide of what OP is looking for.</p>
<p>@MYOS1634: I concur with your statements.</p>