From the Archives: Football and Fundamentalist U
Professor Putz got me wondering: How often has football—not just sports in general, but specifically football—thrown evangelical colleges into a tizzy? Turns out, it’s more common than you might think....
View ArticleBlackface at Fundamentalist U
So we’ve seen a lot of ugly racist yearbook photos lately. Sexist ones, too. I thought I’d take a look at Bob Jones University’s yearbooks to see how they stacked up. After all, BJU might just be the...
View ArticleProgressive Methodists, Welcome to the World of Fundamentalism
Conservatives are celebrating. Progressives are lamenting. From a historical perspective, we can’t help but notice that today’s liberal Methodists are likely feeling the same sort of betrayal and...
View ArticleStar Conservative Professor Rejects Evangelical Higher Ed
I don’t think he meant to do it. But conservatives’ favorite star academic just trashed the entire tradition of conservative evangelical higher education. It’s pretty safe to say that Professor Robert...
View ArticleWhen Loyalty Means Dictatorship: The Latest Sad Story from Liberty U
It is not a happy time to be a Flame. Former student editor Will E. Young offered a blistering expose of the school’s “atmosphere of fear” in the Washington Post. Unfortunately, Young’s experience at...
View ArticleThe Weirdest Good News for Fundamentalist U
It has never been easy to run a mission-driven evangelical college. These days, though, it seems like it might be harder than ever, with storied institutions like Gordon and Nyack Colleges forced to...
View ArticleChristian College Apocalypse: October 8, 2019
The leaders of America’s conservative evangelical colleges are freaking out, and I don’t blame them. An upcoming SCOTUS case threatens to upend the entire premise of evangelical higher ed. A little...
View ArticleThe Mess at Liberty U: Historians’ Perspectives
Even given everyone’s low expectations, the recent expose of Liberty University’s flim-flamming seems shocking. Alumnus Brandon Ambrosino accused Liberty of being a straight-up scam, not just a...
View ArticleLamanites and the Ugly History of Racism at Evangelical Colleges
It must be jarring. Imagine opening the new Sunday-school manual of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and finding cruel racist histories and warnings against racial mixing. It’s not that...
View ArticleAnti-LGBTQ: Follow the Anti-Evolution Road
It must be a difficult time to oppose full inclusion for LGBTQ children. Two major banks have pulled out of a Florida voucher school program. Why? Because the program supported schools that...
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