The president of an evangelical college has jumped into the latest campus culture wars with a complaint about a student who said he felt “victimized” by a sermon on love, and should not have had to listen to it.

The student approached him after a university chapel service to say that a homily based on I Corinthians 13 had made him feel bad for not showing love, Everett Piper, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, said in a post on the university website. “In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable,” Dr. Piper wrote.

Dr. Piper used the anecdote to chide protesters at other universities across the country, suggesting that they, and the Oklahoma Wesleyan student, were “self-absorbed and narcissistic,” and that the university setting was not meant to be a “safe place” but rather a place “to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others.”

“The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins — not coddle you in your selfishness,” the president said in the post, which was pointedly titled “This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!”