A follow-up to this post: David Gushee insists, in this (strikingly defensive and sarcastic) "response to his critics," that he was only describing the "collapse of middle ground" on LGBT issues and religious freedom, and predicting various developments, in this post. Decide for yourself, of course, but I think his original post pretty clearly reads like he's welcoming and endorsing what he's describing. In any event, this response, by George Guthrie (Gushee's former colleague at Union University) is worth a read. Guthrie asks, in a John-Inazu-esque vein, "[i]s it possible to embrace appropriate distinctions between social equality and uniformity of beliefs?" I hope so.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
More on David Gushee, discrimination, and middle ground
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Save the Date: The Annual Nootbaar Conference at Pepperdine
As always, the Nootbaar Conference at Pepperdine, hosted by Bob Cochran, Michael Helfand, and their colleagues, looks to be a wonderful gathering. The info is here.
"Trigger Warnings" and Religious Students
This essay, at The Atlantic, is worth a read.
A challenge, for a Catholic university, it seems to me, is to encourage policies and pedagogical practices that do not uncritically mimic the AAUP's understanding of academic freedom or John Stuart Mill's idea of free speech, that are consistent with and conducive to civility, charity, respect, and humility, and that protect the expression of ideas, views, claims, and arguments that, while they might run counter to the orthodoxy of the moment are nevertheless in keeping with both the Truth that has been revealed and the Truth that we are called and made to pursue.
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