The former Wheaton professor who sparked controversy at the Christian college by saying Muslims and Christians share the same God will take a new job — in a position named after a Muslim historical figure.
Larycia Hawkins will be the Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Virginia, the state university announced.
Hawkins was the only black female tenured professor at Wheaton, one of the nation’s most prominent evangelical universities. But in December, she angered officials at the Christian school with a Facebook post.
She snapped a picture of herself wearing a hijab and said she would wear it to support Muslim women throughout the Advent period. “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” Hawkins wrote on Facebook. “And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”
Candland aligns himself with the hector, heckle and harass blog
Pete Candland needs to not try to peddle the notion that he doesn’t have anything to do with the Sheriff of Nottingham blog. His guest editorial certainly tips his hand.
He never asked me for guest editorial space. I would have probably said yes. I would think if he wanted to get his message out he would have asked Al, Greg, Derecho and me for guest privileges.
While I don’t agree with him on many things and I would put the usual disclaimer, I think it’s important as an elected official not to align one’s self with a blog that is critical of so many local officials and public servants in such an unkind and cruel way.
Pete, ask the next time. You might be surprised at what we actually do agree on. (hint: when are we getting supervisors’ votes recorded online???)
It’s important that we work together as a community.
The Debate: How tiresome and non-productive
It’s highly questionable whether anyone emerged as the winner in Thursday’s Republican presidential debate in Detroit, though the candidates’ spinmeisters would all quibble with that. There was one clear loser: the Grand Old Party.
The 11th debate of the Republican campaign tested the patience and the limits of viewers and voters. Insults and interruptions overwhelmed sober discussion. The raucous audience, now a staple of the GOP debates, only added to the sense of game-show politics.
Can anyone credibly suggest that the Republicans put their collective best face forward on Thursday night? At a time when the party is in crisis over the possibility that Donald Trump will become the nominee, the debate did next-to-nothing to make Trump or his three remaining candidates look or sound presidential.
Designed to define candidates’ differences, the debates have become tedious and repetitious rather than enlightening or illuminating. No new information was imparted, no truly new arguments advanced. Even the insults were tiresome.
At what point are they going to stop with these debates? The GOP is going to run itself into the ground. The debate was boring, exhausting, and accomplished nothing.
