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The Professor Suspended for Saying Muslims and Christians Worship One God
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? It’s a question that has bedeviled theologians and everyday believers for centuries. And this week it may have cost a tenured professor her job.
Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor ofpolitical science at Wheaton College, was placed on administrative leave on Tuesday after suggesting that believers in the two faiths do indeed follow the same God. Hawkins has also been wearinga hijab—the headscarf worn by many Muslim women—as a gesture of what she calls“embodied solidarity” with Muslims this month. She pledged to wear itthroughout the Advent season, including while she teaches at the Illinoisliberal-arts college, and while flying to her home state of Oklahoma, which in 2010 passed a constitutional amendment banning its courts from considering Islamic Sharia law in decisions...
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/christian-college-suspend-professor/421029/
Oh well (John 14:6)
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? It’s a question that has bedeviled theologians and everyday believers for centuries. And this week it may have cost a tenured professor her job.
Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor ofpolitical science at Wheaton College, was placed on administrative leave on Tuesday after suggesting that believers in the two faiths do indeed follow the same God. Hawkins has also been wearinga hijab—the headscarf worn by many Muslim women—as a gesture of what she calls“embodied solidarity” with Muslims this month. She pledged to wear itthroughout the Advent season, including while she teaches at the Illinoisliberal-arts college, and while flying to her home state of Oklahoma, which in 2010 passed a constitutional amendment banning its courts from considering Islamic Sharia law in decisions...
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/christian-college-suspend-professor/421029/
Oh well (John 14:6)