Professor who wore headscarf to leave Christian college
Source: Associated Press
Professor who wore headscarf to leave Christian college
Updated 12:25 pm, Sunday, February 7, 2016
CHICAGO (AP) A professor of a Christian college who asserted Christians and Muslims worship the same God will leave her post, the school near Chicago announced.
In a statement posted on Wheaton College's website, the school and Larycia Hawkins said they "have reached a confidential agreement under which they will part ways." The statement didn't go into details.
The college had placed Hawkins, a Christian and an associate professor of political science, on leave in December after she posted her views on Facebook. Hawkins also began wearing a hijab, the headscarf worn by some Muslim women, to counter what she called "vitriolic" rhetoric against Muslims.
Shortly afterward, the college began efforts to dismiss her despite objections by some faculty members.
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valerief
(53,235 posts)The God of the bible is the same for Jews Xtians and Muslims, or so I thought.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)paleotn
(17,930 posts)among those speaking Semitic languages. All have a habit of trashing splinter groups and considering them not REAL Christians, Muslims or Jews. All follow a very black and white, our way or the highway mentality. Sad really since they have so much in common.
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Blew up a building, or a plane, or a market lately?
crim son
(27,464 posts)But look to Iraq and Afghanistan for relatively current incidents.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)poorly versed in the associated religion.
6chars
(3,967 posts)caraher
(6,278 posts)Wheaton clearly did not deserve her
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)I'm sure she'll find a new position in no time.
catrose
(5,068 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)when she signed their contract to teach there.
Her words are literally heresy for evangelicals. There was no way to reconcile (theologically) what she said v what this college teaches.
It's a private college and can be as crazy as it wants. There are thousands of students clamoring to get in which is why it's known as the "Harvard" of the evangelical colleges - very selective with a student population that's remarkably compliant with their crazy fundy rules ( no hand holding or PDA, no movies or card games etc)
ProfessorGAC
(65,061 posts)I was in undergrad in the mid 70's and people used to ridicule that school for that backward ways. And, i went to a college run by catholics, but there were zero requirements regarding religion even at the academic level.