Why Do Church Affiliated Colleges Always Trend Left? [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Recently James K. A. Smith said Calvin University should sue for divorce from the denomination that sponsors it because the governing body of that denomination says the university should enforce the biblical sexual teachings of that denomination. While this is the latest challenge to ecclesial authority at a ostensibly Christian college, it's definitely not the first. Across the church world similar battles between denominations and their colleges are being fought. But why does it happen in the first place? Today the Pugs--who've seen these fights from the inside many times--give their takes on how these colleges drift from the doctrinal standards of their sponsoring churches and what those churches can do about it.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the theology podcast. It's good to have you here for this episode, and I'm
0:06.4	C.R. Wiley. I'm a pastor. I serve a church in the Pacific Northwest that's in the PCA, Presbyterian Church
0:13.8	in America, and I've written a number of books and I'm wrapping up a book right now in artificial
0:19.9	intelligence. I'm also a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine.
0:23.6	Okay, Tom.
0:25.6	I'm Tom Price.
0:26.6	I teach theology, Christian ethics, philosophy, and a few other things.
0:31.6	Just wrapped up an article for the Hale Institute on Natural Law.
0:35.6	It's nice to get that lifted off.
0:38.3	And other than, well, I teach at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and a few other places.
0:44.3	Okay, Glenn.
0:46.3	And I'm Glenn Sunshine.
0:47.3	I'm a retired history professor at Central Connecticut State University,
0:51.3	specializing in Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
0:54.9	I'm a senior fellow with the Golson Center for Christian World View.
0:58.1	I work for Reflections Ministries, and I have my own ministry as well, every square inch ministries.
1:04.4	Okay, well, it's my day to day.
1:06.2	We're not interviewing anybody, although we're working on getting some more interviews lined up.
1:10.1	But I thought it would be worth reflecting a little bit on the challenges concerning or relating to
1:18.1	churches and their colleges. So, you know, many denominations have done the hard work of
1:26.9	founding colleges that have gone on to become
1:29.4	pretty significant big deal, schools. You think about like, you know, Boston University, which was
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