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The challenges of being a religious scientist
By Christopher P. Scheitle — November 28, 2023
(The Conversation) — Stereotypes about religion vs. science are overblown – but those assumptions can create challenges for religious grad students, a sociologist finds.
Student groups show support for Minnesota college president
By Associated Press — January 27, 2023
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Several student groups at a Minnesota college that dismissed an adjunct art instructor for showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad to her class say they do not want the school's embattled president to resign.
Students accuse Bible college of racism as historic social work program is shuttered
By Liam Adams — July 8, 2021
(RNS) — Cairn University’s president says the decision was ‘co-opted’ by students and alumni making an issue of racism.
The social-media-examined life is not the one that sustains us
By Karen Swallow Prior — June 10, 2021
(RNS) — The public life is not what feeds the desires of the heart.
Why universities — and the rest of us — need religion studies
By Simran Jeet Singh — December 4, 2020
(RNS) — If we let universities strip away their commitments to religious diversity, we are actually making our communities less safe.
Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant
By Collin Binkley — September 19, 2019
(AP) — The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program, arguing that it's misusing a federal grant to unfairly promote "the positive aspects of Islam" but not Christianity or Judaism
MIT faces backlash over invited speaker’s anti-Muslim comments
By Aysha Khan — February 12, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (RNS) — Indian and Muslim groups are pushing MIT to disinvite a prominent Indian politician over his record of anti-Muslim remarks.
What I learned teaching Islamic studies in Texas
By Simran Jeet Singh — January 4, 2019
(RNS) — It’s not always easy to dismiss others’ fears, even if you are not really the thing they are scared of.
#ChurchToo supporter Karen Swallow Prior builds bridges between the extremes
By Adelle M. Banks — August 20, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Inside and outside the classroom, the 53-year-old Maine native said her goal is to help all creatures great and small (she’s an animal rights activist too) improve their lives.
Islam scholar Bernard Lewis’ legacy of disdain for Muslims
By Hussein Rashid — May 29, 2018
(RNS) — Lewis understood Muslims as violent by nature, irrational, abusive toward women, lacking in culture. He could not conceive of Muslims in the context of modernity.
Catholic college head quits after ‘bunnies’ remark
By Reuters — March 1, 2016
Simon Newman had been quoted comparing students at the Maryland college to bunnies and saying: "You just have to drown the bunnies ... put a Glock to their heads."
Why C.S. Lewis remains popular: a friend reflects
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — November 20, 2013
(RNS) Fifty years after his death, not many people can claim to have known C.S. Lewis personally. But one of them is James Houston, one of the founders of the respected Christian institution Regent College in Vancouver, who ran in the same circles as Lewis while they were both at Oxford. Houston, who turned 91 […]
Transgender theology professor asked to leave Christian college
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 23, 2013
(RNS) "I tried to be the best Christian woman I could be … but I’ve never been fully myself, I’ve always been living a lie, not exactly on purpose but that was the best truth I knew at the time.”
Transgender theology professor asked to leave California Christian college after coming out
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 20, 2013
Azusa Pacific University has asked a professor who was once its chair of theology and philosophy to leave the school after he came out as transgender.
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