Earlier this month, Baylor University announced that it had refused a grant worth over $600,000 to study the “inclusion” of the LGBTQ+ community in the church. The Texas Baptist college had previously agreed to collaborate with the Baugh Foundation, a progressive Christian organization, on the “Courage from the Margins” project, which would conduct “research to […]
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In the spring of 2008 Baylor University denied tenure to a larger than usual number of Assistant Professors up for promotion, including two-thirds of the women, and while tenure denial is normal at Baylor, the carnage uptick – from 10% to 40% in a single year – drew national attention and outcries of unfairness. No […]
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