The front page of Tuesday’s Tribune carried a story by religion reporter Manya Brachear Pashman examining the troubles at Wheaton College, where a tenured professor is in grave danger of losing her job. Known as the “Harvard of Christian colleges,” writes Pashman, Wheaton is always on the lookout for “quality faculty who can integrate their Christian faith with the topics they teach.”
Then I read the letter to Hawkins from provost Stanton Jones explaining how she had strayed. Hawkins had expressed solidarity with Muslims on Facebook, writing, for example, that “We worship the same God” and “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book.”
