Many religious-studies professors consider personal references to one's own faith to be out of place in an academic context. However, the author contends that students nowadays need to know what a professor thinks, including what he believes about some matter of faith, if the comments compare his position with other possibilities and invite discussion and contrasting views. The author believes that students should be exposed in a college classroom to the idea that religious assertions have intellectual content, which can be discussed rationally. As such, teachers should not be worried about expressing their views on matters of faith.