Biden’s First 100 Days: What’s Not for Evangelicals to Like?
(RNS) On Wednesday (Jan. 20), before the scattered chairs on the National Mall had even been collected, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, ominously warned his conservative Christian followers that President Joe Biden and his Democratic cronies would lead America to “new levels of radicalism” in which Christians would be persecuted and liberals would be “canceling anyone who disagrees.”
“President Biden is adamant that the hallmark of his administration will be tearing down thousands of years of human history, morality, science, and gender norms,” Perkins wrote.
Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at First Baptist Dallas and one of former President Donald Trump’s advisers, had already sounded an alarm the previous Sunday in a sermon that predicted “savage times” in which “society begins to disintegrate.” He too prepared faithful Christians for increased “persecution” fro
The A. J. Gordon Memorial Chapel at Gordon College, a Christian academic institution located in Wenham, Massachusetts. | Mark Spooner
In the last three years, 38 Christian college presidents have left their jobs, according to statistics from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
Before now, college presidents in the CCCU have often stayed at universities longer than their counterparts, said Gordon College President D. Michael Lindsay. But as the pressures and complexity of university operations have increased, the number of years Christian presidents serve has decreased.
Lindsay said he plans to end his 10-year job as president because he felt God was calling him to another task. Although future prospects for the Massachusetts college look excellent, he will leave his position this year. During his presidency, he has seen the field of higher education change.
New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
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New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
New alliance unites seminaries, Christian colleges and schools amid ongoing struggles
Representatives attend the International Alliance for Christian Education’s inaugural meeting at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida in February 2020. | International Alliance for Christian Education
Dozens of Christian colleges, high schools, seminaries and Bible colleges have banded together to form an alliance uniting all sectors of Christian education to address the mutual challenges they face in an increasingly secular culture.
On January 4, 2021, the House adopted a rules package for the 117th Congress presented by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rules Committee Chairman James P. McGovern (D-MA). In a troubling development for NRB members, the rules package requires all pronouns and familial relationships to be changed in the House rules so that they are gender neutral.
Decision could impact freedom of faculty, ability of evangelical institutions to hire and fire.
Daniel Silliman| Image: John Phelan / Wikimedia
One of professor Margaret DeWeese-Boyd’s students thought she did a “great job of connecting class materials with Christian faith” in her Gordon College social work course. Another said that after nearly 30 years teaching at the Christian liberal arts school, DeWeese-Boyd excelled at “incorporating our faith into our materials, calling us to be relevant and apply our materials to our Christian life.”
Does that mean she was a minister?
A Massachusetts court will weigh that question in a hearing on January 4. The decision in the lawsuit between the former professor and Gordon College could have far-reaching implications for other evangelical institutions of higher education and the many people who work for them.