Christian professor’s suspension questioned: #tellusatoday

A professor at Wheaton College, an evangelical school, showed solidarity with Muslims by wearing a hijab. Larycia Hawkins was suspended after saying Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Comments from Facebook and Twitter are edited for clarity and grammar:

This has to be one of the all-time bad moves, to suspend this woman for suggesting unity in the religious world.

— Dalton Moore

She wasn’t suspended for showing solidarity with Muslims. She was suspended because of some theological statements she made about what she saw as commonalities between Islam and Christianity, and the implications for the college, given her position there.

— Matt Windsor

I always live in hope that even evangelicals can be saved from their narrow perspective on God and be less egocentric about who God belongs to.

— Georgine Stob

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Harassment of a faculty member for free speech is reprehensible but legal at this private, “Christian” college. I admire the professor.

— @DrKondracki

Why did they hire her in the first place? Why did she apply to teach there?

— @jacigreggs

As a professor at a Christian school, I’m troubled that some such schools find it more OK to wear a gun than a hijab.

— @JimBMcPherson

The college should not have suspended her. It should have fired her.

— @mikeharris6412

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