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4 Heresies That Really Aren’t April 11, 2018 Matthew Distefano Being called a heretic is not something I relish. It can be humorous, sure. But, for the most part, it’s nothing more than an annoying distraction that offers zero meat to the conversation. Take, for instance, what YouTube commenter—and all around super-Christian, I’m sure—AJ Velichko recently said about my latest book: “You’re a heretic Matthew and your book is going to lead people to hell. You need to REPENT and withdraw all of your books and ask God to undo the damage you’ve done with this project.”

Waiting for the Good Sense Revolution The Trump administration has pressed higher education hard. This year, the Department of Education issued guidance to guarantee due process in campus sexual misconduct cases, and to prevent campuses from defining sexual harassment in such a way as to punish speech protected by the First Amendment. The DOE has also said that public universities risk their federal aid if they don’t abide by the First Amendment and private universities risk it if they don’t keep their own free speech and academic freedom promises. At least three institutions are already ...

Five years of the ‘Chicago Statement’: What have we learned? Part 2 Editor’s Note: for colleges and universities across the nation to adopt the statement themselves in order to express their commitment to freedom of expression. In our first installment of this series, we journeyed back to 2014 to explore the beginnings of the Chicago Statement and discuss the impact it had on campuses across the nation to begin conversations about free expression. In this entry, we’ll explore some common critiques of the Chicago Statement and review emerging trends in universities’ adoptions of fr...