Here is Yonat Shimron at Religion News Service: Whitworth University, a Christian school affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has revised its policies to allow for the hiring of LGBTQ faculty and to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination statement. […]
Christian colleges
Report: Alliance University (Nyack College) will close
We have posted about the financial troubles of The Kings College. The Christian college is on the brink of closing. Kings is currently located in Manhattan, but from 1955-1994 it existed in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York. Nyack College […]
Seattle Pacific University will make huge cuts to its academic budget
Another Christian college is in financial trouble. Here is Nina Shapiro at The Seattle Times: Seattle Pacific University is cutting its budget for academic programs by 40% — mostly through steep faculty layoffs, effective in a year. The announcement by […]
The Kings College loses its accreditation
Here is Josh Moody at Inside Higher Ed: Already facing severe financial pressures, the King’s College was dealt another blow last week when the Middle States Commission on Higher Education withdrew its accreditation. In an announcement posted to the MSCHE website, the […]
What is going on at Taylor University?
Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: A veteran English professor at a leading evangelical university has lost her job — in part because a school official deemed her writing classes too liberal on the issue of race. Julie […]
Eighteen hours in Madison, Wisconsin
Yesterday I spent the day with the impressive staff of Upper House, the Christian study center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was in Madison to participate in an interfaith faculty dialogue on listening and democratic discourse […]
The chair of the Bob Jones University board of trustees steps down
We covered the recent fundamentalist coup at Bob Jones here. Mark Wingfield has the latest at Baptist News Global. John Lewis, the chairman of the Bob Jones University board of trustees, has resigned. Here is Wingfield: …[President] Pettit resigned March […]
Dondi E. Costin is the new president of Liberty University
As Kate Shellnut reports at Christianity Today, Liberty University has finally replaced Jerry Falwell Jr. on a permanent basis. Dondi Custin is a retired Air Force chaplain. Here is a taste of Kate’s reporting: Two and a half years after […]
Steve Pettit resigns as president of Bob Jones University
Back in November 2022 old school fundamentalists at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina tried to remove president Steve Pettit. Apparently the popular president was allowing the wrong kind of music in chapel, letting female athletes wear “immodest clothing,” […]
Ron DeSantis is heading to Liberty University
A visit to the Liberty University convocation has become a rite of passage for GOP presidential candidates. (Remember Donald Trump’s “Two Corinthians” blunder?) Florida governor Ron DeSantis is obviously aware of this. He will be at Liberty next month. Here […]
“It’s possible that up to a third of students at evangelical colleges are not physically at their schools.”
Michael Wear gets it right: Some of us are taking it seriously–very seriously. But as I have said over and over again, most Christian colleges are now in the business of making sure that they keep the doors open. This […]
Jerry Falwell Jr. is suing Liberty University
Falwell Jr. says his former employer owes him over $8.5 million. Here is Jacob Hunziker at ABC 13 News in Lynchburg, Virginia: Liberty University is facing a new lawsuit — this one coming from its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., […]
Two Twitter threads that reveal the current state of The Kings College, a Christian college in New York City
We have covered the financial difficulties of The Kings College here and here. Here is New York journalist Sam Thielman: And here is Alissa Wilkinson, a writer and film critic who teaches English at The Kings College:
The Kings College is still on the ropes
This could be the last semester for the Manhattan-based Christian college. Here is Emily Belz at Christianity Today: The financial crisis in Christian higher education has hit The King’s College, a Christian liberal arts school in New York City, with […]
Randall Balmer on the closing of his alma mater
On Monday we called your attention to the closing of Trinity College, the undergraduate college of Trinity International University. In that piece I noted that Randall Balmer, a religion professor at Dartmouth College and one of our best chroniclers of […]
Trinity College in Deerfield, IL ends residential, in-person undergraduate education.
My first teaching job at a four-year college was at Trinity College in Deerfield, IL (now the undergraduate college of Trinity International University). Then history department chair Rick Pointer invited me to teach a course on European history from 1945 […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 20, 2023 at 11:58AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury University president Kevin Brown announces the new schedule change: Asbury University’s director of communication: The local NBC affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky published […]
The Asbury revival has “spread” to Cedarville University. According to one report, Cedarville needs it.
On February 12, 2023, Thomas White, the president of Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, tweeted this: Lo and behold, Cedarville is now having a revival. Read this story in the campus newspaper. White announced the revival in a chapel service […]
The MAGA evangelical revivalists are silent about the Asbury University revival. Why?
Charlie Kirk, the MAGA evangelical who runs Turning Point USA, wants a national awakening: Kirk believes that the only way to stop what he calls “The Great Reset” is a new Great Awakening. He believes that such a reawakening is […]
Revival comes, again, to Asbury University
Something is happening at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky and it has some striking similarities to 1970: Here is Alexandra Presta at The Asbury Collegian: I have been in Hughes Auditorium for almost twelve hours now without an intent to […]