It appears that the Los Angeles Times has learned that many conservative Christian colleges are having a difficult time navigating the political and cultural changes of the last decade or so. Here is a taste of Thomas Curwen’s piece on […]
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Eastern University alumni ask university to rescind Doug Mastriano’s 2009 “Alumnus of the Year” award
Frankly, I am surprised Eastern, a Christian college with a rather progressive political history–think Bryan Stevenson, Shane Claiborne, Roberta Hestenes, Ron Sider, Tony Campolo–would give Mastriano such an award. The committee must not have known about this 2001 paper. Here […]
Friends of Grove City College apologize to those hurt by the school’s “anti-woke” Board of Trustees
Here is the Facebook petition: The signers of this petition are students, alumni, parents, current or former employees, as well as people concerned with the continued healthy academic environment of Grove City College. We are grieving following the actions of the […]
The Grove City College anti-woke victory is secured
Here is Grove City College psychology professor Warren Throckmorton: Get up to speed here. For our specific post of the ad hoc committee’s report click here. I know a lot of schools are going through “prioritization” right now, but nothing […]
The latest on sexual harassment at Liberty University
Fourteen women have sued Liberty University since July, accusing the school of a “long-standing pattern of mishandling sexual assaults.” Here is Josh Moody at Inside Higher Ed: Liberty University is under fire, facing a barrage of allegations that it mishandled […]
The fight for the soul of Grove City College
A self-professed conservative Christian college has decided to turn its back on systemic racism and diversity. Here is Kathryn Post at Religion News Service: When Cedric Lewis came to Grove City College nine years ago, he was delighted to teach […]
Inside Higher Ed reports on the Grove City College “wokeness” controversy
Not familiar with what is going on at Grove City College? Get up to speed here. Here is a taste of Colleen Flaherty’s piece at Inside Higher Ed: Cedric Lewis, who co-taught and co-designed EDU 290, the elective on diversity […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman takes on Grove City College
Not familiar with what is going on at Grove City? Check out our coverage here. Here is a taste of Norman’s column: “Blessed are the (un)woke“: What Mr. Tisby didn’t know was that the opinions of the students who applauded […]
More from Grove City College
Muckraker (in the best sense of the word, e.g. Upton Sinclair) Warren Throckmorton has exposed some anti-Christian tendencies in an economic theorist who is apparently a “saint” at Grove City College. For those who don’t know, Throckmorton teaches psychology at […]
Grove City College alumni back Jemar Tisby
If you are unfamiliar with what is going on Grove City College, get up to speed here. This petition is signed (so far) by 146 Grove City alums: We are writing to voice our concern in response to Grove City […]
Grove City College “does not have a statement of faith, but it does now have a statement of politics”
Here is Baylor University historian Andrea Turpin at The Anxious Bench: Note that this decision-making paradigm says nothing about either the Christian identity of the college or the rigor of the education offered. It evaluates the role of racial justice education […]
A second Grove City College professor tweets about the school’s “wokeness” controversy
It looks as if the special committee of the Grove City Board of Trustees is getting some faculty pushback in the wake of its recent anti-wokeness statement. (Get up to speed here.) Yesterday adjunct professor Cedric Lewis weighed-in. This morning […]
A Grove City College professor speaks out about teaching EDU 290: “Cultural Diversity and Advocacy”
EDUC 290: Cultural Diversity and Advocacy was a two-credit course at Grove City College. It may no longer be taught at the college due to the recent anti-woke report from a special committee of the Board of Trustees. Get up […]
An anti-woke victory at Grove City College
Get up to speed here. The “special committee” of the Grove City Board of Trustees” has issued its report on “wokeness.” Read the entire report here. Some highlights: The report affirms Grove City College’s identity as Christian college that “pursues […]
The latest hit piece in the “elite evangelical” genre
Over at the Albert Mohler and Andrew T. Walker’s WORLD magazine culture war newsletter, Miles Smith, a history professor at Hillsdale College, seems to think that evangelical historians who criticize Donald Trump must be trying to cozy-up to the secular […]
As promised, Jon Meacham will lecture at Samford University
Back in November, I wrote a piece at Current titled “Canceling Jon Meacham.” Here is a taste of that piece: …I thought about Meacham’s visit to Messiah, a Christian university with strong ties to American evangelicalism, when I learned that […]
What is going on at Oklahoma Christian University?
A graphic design professor who taught at the school for more than 40 years was fired for bringing a gay speaker to campus. The speaker was an Oklahoma Christian University alumnus. Professor Michael O’Keefe invited the speaker to his “The […]
Eric Metaxas chides Tim Keller for reading too much (and other evidence of the scandal of the evangelical mind)
If you want to see Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind at work, watch Eric Metaxas’s interview with Lucas Miles at the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters. Lucas is the author of a book titled The Christian […]
Religion News Service covers the Grove City College CRT debate
Here is a taste of Kathryn Post’s piece: Warren Throckmorton, a professor of psychology who signed the second faculty letter, told Religion News Service that some faculty are unsure how to respond to the board’s rejection of critical race theory […]
Johann Neem “walks among the ruins” of the modern university
Some of you may recall our conversation with Johann Neem in Episode 54 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. In that episode we talked with the Western Washington University historian about his book What’s the Point of College. […]