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Larycia Hawkins affair

“Same God”: A Documentary on the Larycia Hawkins Controversy at Wheaton College

John Fea   |  September 19, 2018

Remember the Larycia Hawkins controversy at Wheaton College?  If not, get caught-up here. It now looks as if the controversy is the subject of a documentary that will appear later this month at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Read all...

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Mark Noll Talks Trump, Hawkins, and the Evangelical Mind

John Fea   |  March 21, 2017

Check out this interview with Noll at The Wheaton Record, the student newspaper of Wheaton College.  As many of you know, Noll taught at Wheaton for 27 years before moving to Notre Dame for the final decade of his teaching career.  In...

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Larycia Hawkins Lands at the University of Virginia

John Fea   |  March 4, 2016

Former Wheaton College political science professor Larycia Hawkins will spend the next three years at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. Here is a taste of a piece at the Chronicle of Higher Education: Larycia...

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Did Wheaton College and Larycia Hawkins Really "Reconcile?"

John Fea   |  February 9, 2016

Jacob Lupfer, a graduate Oklahoma Baptist University and a doctoral candidate in political science at Georgetown University, is not buying it. Here is a taste of his recent piece at Religion News Service: (RNS) The ongoing drama of Professor Larycia...

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Academic Freedom: From the University of Washington to Wheaton College

John Fea   |  January 19, 2016

Several years ago Tracy McKenzie moved from the University of Washington to Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.  He is thus ideally suited to speak about the issues surrounding academic freedom at Wheaton in the context of the Larycia Hawkins case....

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Another Side of Wheaton College

John Fea   |  January 14, 2016

Here is Tim Blackmon, chaplain of Wheaton College. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEOz2Dv6RVk&w=560&h=315] This is evangelicalism....

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What is a Christian College?

John Fea   |  January 13, 2016

Here are some of my thoughts about evangelical higher education in light of the Larcyia Hawkins case at Wheaton College.  I pitched it a few places, but no one seemed to want it.  My opinions here are solely my own....

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Why I Agree with Timothy Larsen

John Fea   |  January 11, 2016

A few hours ago I wrote a post on Timothy Larsen’s insider remarks about the Larycia Hawkins affair at Wheaton College.   Here are some more thoughts on that piece: I think we need to remember that there are different...

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Timothy Larsen Defends Wheaton College

John Fea   |  January 11, 2016

Timothy Larsen is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College.  (Some of you know that this is the endowed chair formerly held by Notre Dame historian Mark Noll). Larsen is an excellent scholar and a thoughtful defender of...

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Even More Wheaton College Stuff

John Fea   |  January 11, 2016

The Chronicle of Higher Education has weighed-in on the Larcyia Hakwins case at Wheaton College.  Here is a taste: Yet Ms. Hawkins and others question how welcoming Wheaton is of diverse viewpoints and styles. “All evangelical colleges have to ask what diversity...

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More on Wheaton College

John Fea   |  January 10, 2016

Everyone is talking about Wheaton College.  I just got back from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta and it seemed like everyone I ran into wanted to chat about the Larycia Hawkins case. I had conversations...

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Wheaton College: What a Mess!

John Fea   |  January 9, 2016

We are slowly getting more information about the Larycia Hawkins case at Wheaton College.  In this article at the website of Time, several more Wheaton professors speak out in defense of Hawkins. Elizabeth Dias, the Time reporter on the story, and a Wheaton...

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A Wheaton College Faculty Member Breaks the Silence on the Larycia Hawkins Affair

John Fea   |  January 8, 2016

Everyone is talking about Wheaton College and Larycia Hawkins.  Even the president of the other Wheaton College is getting heat for it. Over the past week or so I have been in communication with a few Wheaton faculty members to learn...

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What Would Jonathan Blanchard Do?

John Fea   |  January 7, 2016

I my recent response to Aaron Griffith’s post on Wheaton College’s history in light of the Larycinda Hawkins case, I included this sentence: Griffiths may be right when he argues that Hawkins’s decision to stand with persecuted Muslims in America...

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Attention Christian Colleges: Larycia Hawkins May Be on the Job Market

John Fea   |  January 7, 2016

When Larycia Hawkins put on a hijab and said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, Wheaton College Provost Stanton Jones had some “concerns.”  He asked the political science professor to address them. Hawkins responded with a “theological statement.”...

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Wheaton College's Search for a Usable Past

John Fea   |  January 5, 2016

I really appreciate Aaron Griffith’s attempt to show that Wheaton College’s decision to fire Larycia Hawkins ignores the school’s 19th-century social justice roots. Griffiths writes: Wheaton’s brand of evangelicalism cannot be understood without considering its history. Wheaton was founded in...

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Wheaton College Goes Forward With Termination Proceedings in the Larycia Hawkins Case

John Fea   |  January 5, 2016

This is what it has come down to at Wheaton College.  Christianity Today is reporting that Larycia Hawkins, the political science professor who wore a hijab during Advent and said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, is probably...

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A Wheaton Graduate Asks His Alma Mater to Consider Its Muslim Neighbors

John Fea   |  December 23, 2015

John Schmalzbauer is not your average Wheaton College alumnus. He is the Blanche Gorman Strong Chair of Protestant Studies at Missouri State University.  In his recent piece at Religion and Politics, Schmalzbauer puts the entire Larycia Hawkins affair in the...

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Hart: Larycia Hawkins Should Wear a Hijab on the Fourth of July

John Fea   |  December 22, 2015

Wheaton College Darryl Hart thinks that the theology I have used to defend Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins’s decision to wear a hijab during Advent is too inclusive.   Here is what I wrote: I think Hawkins is trying to...

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Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?: Christian Theologians Weigh-In

John Fea   |  December 17, 2015

If you are following the Larycia Hawkins case at Wheaton College you know that she was placed on administrative leave by the college not for wearing a hijab in solidarity with her Muslim “sisters,” but because she said that Christians...

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