[jude24]

This is an article from today's Wall St. Journal that intrigued me as soon as I picked the paper up today.

What do you all think?

[Gamecock]

***As he saw it, evangelical Protestantism was vaguely defined and had a weak scholarly tradition***

I've been saying that for years around here and constantly get howled down. He's right on that point. (See my tagline)

But......Wheaton has a right to hire whomever they want. They hang themselves out as an Evangelical School, they have a right to have an Evangelical Faculty.


(Not that I would send my kids there.)

[P-Marlowe]

Since he had a contract that requried him to be a practicing protestant, he broke the contract by converting to Catholicism.

He should have tendered his resignation. I'm sure it would have been accepted and there would not have been any controversy. That would have been the honorable thing to do. He had a legal and moral obligation to resign.

Wheaton was not only within their rights to fire him, but since he went public with this issue in an apparent attempt to embarrass the college, I would suggest that they should sue him for breach of contract.

[HarleyD]

I would agree with the general consensus that they should be allowed to fire the professor. I would also think (and hope) the professor would feel a bit uncomfortable anyway in that environment. Maybe we'll see him on the next Catholic post of those who have swam the Tiber.

[nickcarraway]

When did the WSJ start publishing on Saturday?

[RnMomof7]

I think that the school has the right to determine who teaches there.

It is a protestant school, I would expect that is a natural response and one that should have been expected by the professor. How many Calvinists teach in the theology department of Catholic theology programs preparing men for the priesthood? ?

Some boundaries make sense. This is one of them