Remember the media storm over Bishop Vasa requesting teachers sign an agreement affirming that \u201cmodern errors\u201d regarding \u201cmatters that gravely offend human dignity.\u201d? Well I think this story will not get the same attention.<\/p>\n
Christian colleges and universities have every right to maintain their denominational heritages. I teach at Houston Baptist University, and I am pleased that our school explicitly holds to its Christian mission:<\/p>\n
Many universities call themselves Christian, but cannot bring themselves to talk about the central narrative of the Christian faith \u2013 the Incarnation, the Cross, and the Resurrection. Yet as Father Richard John Neuhaus has written, \u201cIf what Christians say about Good Friday is true, then it is, quite simply, the truth about everything.\u201d The implications of such truths are worth studying and knowing to the fullest \u2013 truths we all must confront to have a life worthy of our Creator\u2019s purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Therefore, it is right and good for Christian institutions to ask their faculty to teach in accordance with central tenets of the Christian faith. Recently, however, a couple of Baptist colleges have dismissed theology faculty because they hold to Baptist principles. (source)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kind of a reverse mandatum.<\/p>\n