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Via College Fix:
Evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois is in upheaval as one of its two black professors faces a school inquiry over her adherence to its strict statement of faith.
Larycia Hawkins had claimed that Christians and Muslims worship the “same God” as she explained why she was wearing a hijab in December.
Now one of her colleagues, Counseling Prof. Michael Mangis, is claiming that “white privilege” is behind her adjudication, which could (but is unlikely to) end in the tenured Hawkins’ termination.
Mangis himself helped inflame the situation when he gave a Time reporter an email from Wheaton’s provost that called Hawkins’ original comment “innocuous.”
In a message posted with permission on the blog of Artur Rosman, a former Polish TV personality and recent Ph.D. recipient from the University of Washington, Mangis wrote that he had been “attacked or ostracized” by defending Hawkins on Facebook.
Not content to simply criticize Wheaton’s process for vetting theological pronouncements by faculty, Mangis writes that at Wheaton – a university sometimes referred to as an evangelical Harvard – “white patriarchy reigns virtually unchallenged”:
