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Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…, has a similar story. Believing that even within a common faith community students ought to be free to explore a variety of perspectives, Overbay allowed his film students to create classroom projects that did not adhere to Asbury’s public performance guidelines. All public performances at Asbury, according to these guidelines, must “promote a Christian worldview,” while cursing, taking the Lord’s name in vain, and sexual innuendo are all forbidd…

Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm Finally Settles Suit

By Lauri Lebo

…st week approved the settlement agreement between the family of the burned student and teacher John Freshwater. The debacle first began in December 2007 when Zachary Dennis came home from school with a burn mark on his arm in the shape of a cross. His parents Jenifer and Stephen visited the school, looking for answers. When they felt they didn’t get them, they filed suit against both the Mt. Vernon School District and Freshwater. In addition to th…

Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm Fired

By Lauri Lebo

…the separation of church and state, rather than the physical assault on a student. The litany of Freshwater’s religious activity in the classroom goes back more than a decade and includes him displaying posters of the Ten Commandments and bible versus and teaching students in science class that evolution is a lie. After the parents of Zachary Dennis complained to the district about the burn on their son’s arm way back in December 2007, the distri…

Christian Colleges, Gay Faculty—and the Boy Scouts

By L Marston

…tudents to grow and learn.” (A few CCCU schools have officially recognized student clubs for gay students and allies, such as Eastern Mennonite University’s Safe Space.) In his interview, Dr. Le Roy stated, “We have gay and lesbian students here. I have met with them. I have talked with them. They are Christians and they are trying to figure out, ‘What does this mean?’ ‘How do I live?’” He then added, “The Scripture that I need to be obedient to l…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ash The Jakarta Post reported that “verbal and online persecution” of LGBT students has extended to the wider LGBT community and people who support them in the wake of media reports about an LGBT student support group. The country’s Minister of Research Technology and Higher Education said such groups should not be allowed on campuses because they damage the country’s morality. “LGBT is not in accordance with the values and morals of India,” he sa…

Catholic Universities Facing a Fork in the Road on Gender & Sexuality: The Church or the Culture

By Patricia Miller

…raditional” marriage group called Love Saxa of discriminating against LGBT students and asked the university to defund the organization. The students asserted that Love Saxa’s promotion of marriage as “a monogamous and permanent union between a man and a woman” ran afoul of the university’s rules for official student groups, which say that such groups can’t “foster hatred or intolerance of others because of their race, nationality, gender, religio…

Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…ban. For those unfamiliar with this story, here’s the broad outline. LGBTQ student group Spectrum WT, along with the local chapter of Secular Students of America (SSA), planned to host a drag show on campus on March 31 of this year, with proceeds going to benefit LGBTQ suicide prevention advocacy group The Trevor Project. The student groups met all the university’s requirements, booked an on-campus venue, and began to advertise the event and sell…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…George Fox, where last fall university officials refused to allow a trans* student to live in student housing appropriate to his gender, and at California Baptist University, which expelled a trans* student from its nursing program in 2013 for alleged fraud because she chose the “female” box for “gender” on her application for admission. Both trans* students sued their former schools, but courts largely sided with the universities in both cases. W…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Friday. The Aceh Public Order Agency, or Wilatul Hisbah, arrested two male students suspected of being in a relationship, the paper reports. The two students were taken to the Wilatul Hisbah office for questioning. They were accused of violating Article 63 (1) of the 2014 Qanun Jinayat, which states those found to be carrying out same-sex relations will face a maximum sentence of 100 lashes or pay a maximum fine of 1,000 grams of pure gold or face…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite pastor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014. Vincent Gordon Harding Historian and theologian Vincent Gordon H…