Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and many other universities were founded explicitly as Protestant Christian institutions, only to devolve over time into something else. So in the latter half of the nineteenth century, evangelical Protestants in America started again, creating a new generation of colleges and seminaries they hoped would avoid the mistakes of their predecessors.  But as the current controversy over Wheaton College attests, history seems to be repeating itself. And the problem reaches far beyond Wheaton. For twelve years I served as a professor at Seattle Pacific University (SPU). Founded by pious Free Methodists in the 1890s, the school is another historically evangelical institution like Wheaton. While there, I was able to witness firsthand how a Christian university deconstructs. To be sure, Seattle Pacific Read More ›