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In December, Dr. Larycia Hawkins—a tenured professor at Christian school, Wheaton College—posted a photo on Facebook wearing a hijab in a show of solidarity with Muslims who were facing heightened anti-Islam sentiment and violence. In the post she wrote: “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.” She was promptly suspended. Now, Wheaton has begun the process to fire Hawkins.
In a statement issued yesterday (January 5), the college confirmed that it is attempting to terminate Hawkin’s employment:
This notice follows the impasse reached by the parties. Following Dr. Hawkins’ written response on December 17 to questions regarding her theological convictions, the College requested further theological discussion and clarification. However, as posted previously, Dr. Hawkins declined to participate in further dialogue about the theological implications of her public statements and her December 17 response.
Within the next month, the Faculty Personnel Committee will hold a hearing and make a recommendation regarding Hawkins’ status at the college. Then the president will consider the arguments made by the committee and the provost and make his own recommendation to the board of trustees, which will make the final decision.
Meanwhile, students and theologians have rallied around Hawkins, noting that the belief that Muslims and Christians worship the same God is a common one. “To say that we worship the same God is not the same as insisting that we have an agreed and shared understanding of God,” Amy Plantinga Pauw, a professor of Christian theology at Louisville Seminary said in an interview with NPR.
Yale Divinity School theologian Miroslav Volf thinks the attempt at dismissal has less to do with religion and more to do with hate. “There isn’t any theological justification for Hawkins’ forced administrative leave,” Volf wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post. “Her suspension is not about theology and orthodoxy. It is about enmity toward Muslims.”
(H/t ThinkProgress)
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Logically complete cosmological concept. /due to lack of knowledge of the English language was not able to correct the translation Implemented by Google/
In order to present the unlimited space originally:
1. homogeneous - enough to postulate the presence in it of two elements with Simple and Complex /closed systematically/
2. heterogeneous - enough to postulate the presence in it of one more element - the Most High and Almighty God - with open systematically.
It is easy to assume that even at the lowest possible deployment of the intangible component of the essence of God - the Spirit of God - for the level of the original downwardly directed the permanent deployment of the material component of the essence of God, there is a curtailment of Simple and Complex /i.e.. It is their decay due to blocking of origin upwardly directed constantly deploy intangible components of the entity / as much as possible heterogeneous to God's essence minimum possible number of cell uniformity (1H), and God on the basis of the material components of the 1H deploys the minimum possible heterogeneous to its essence as possible numerically elemental homogeneity (2H). Coagulation process will begin in 2H known God start time since the completion of its deployment. curtailment of the Spirit of God to the level of initial deployment again unfolds 1H - God potential for transformation 1H into 2H and 1H into 2H limitless!
What is going on in colleges these days??? It seems that every couple of weeks there's yet another story about an academic who faces unemployment because they dare to talk about religion. This professor, imho, is absolutely correct in her statements about the "people of the book" which applies to Jews, Muslims, and Christians. There are obvious differences in the 3 religions but they all stem from one source (the "Old Testament") and they all worship G-d, using different names. And even if the professor was incorrect in her assertion, why should her job be on the line in the first place? Pretty soon teachers won't be able to say anything about anything and we'll start to see book burning, like they did in pre-war Germany. This censorship needs to stop! Just like how schools are now alerting students to potential "trigger words" in the course reading materials. College is supposed to be a place where you expand your mind and learn about new stuff. If students are so delicate and don't want to be triggered, maybe they don't belong in college.