Larycia Hawkins

Is Wheaton reconciled with Doc Hawk or with conservative evangelicals? (COMMENTARY)

By Jacob Lupfer — February 9, 2016
(RNS) If separating from a tenured professor under a confidential agreement is “reconciliation,” then surely the word has no meaning.

Wheaton provost apologizes to Larycia Hawkins; she’s leaving

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 6, 2016
(RNS) Hawkins and Wheaton said they would part with mutual respect after controversy over Hawkins' comment that Christians and Muslims worship the "same God."

Wheaton faculty recommends college drop actions against professor

By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 21, 2016
CHICAGO (RNS) The faculty council said it has “grave concerns” about the process the college followed in its efforts to fire Larycia Hawkins.

Is Wheaton College getting a fair shake? (COMMENTARY)

By Trevin Wax — January 19, 2016
(RNS) Make no mistake. Wheaton College is the "rebel" when it comes to enforcing its doctrinal standard, especially considering our society’s distaste for dogma.

Protesters push to ‘Reinstate Doc Hawk’ on first day of Wheaton’s spring semester

By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 11, 2016
WHEATON (RNS) It was a chilly start to the spring semester as students gathered on the steps of the evangelical school’s Edman Memorial Chapel chanting “Reinstate Doc Hawk” over the ringing of the chapel bells.

What the Larycia Hawkins case means for evangelical colleges (COMMENTARY)

By David P. Gushee — January 8, 2016
(RNS) What Hawkins really violated were the implicit but very real political preferences of Wheaton’s constituency, not the school’s explicit theological standards.

Larycia Hawkins ‘flabbergasted’ by Wheaton’s move to fire her

By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 6, 2016
CHICAGO (RNS) “Wheaton College cannot scare me into walking away from the truth (that) all humans -- Muslims, the vulnerable, the oppressed of any ilk ­-- are all my sisters and brothers, and I am called by Jesus to walk with them,” Hawkins said.

Wheaton prof faces termination after ‘same God’ comment

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 5, 2016
(RNS) Larycia Hawkins was suspended in December after college officials said her theological statements “seemed inconsistent" with the evangelical college's doctrines.

Wheaton College suspension of prof for ‘same God’ comment disgraceful (COMMENTARY)

By Tobin Grant — December 17, 2015
(RNS) The school’s overreaction to a professor’s statement on Islam has turned a minor controversy into a full-fledged fiasco.
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