July 14, 2006

The Press and Patrick Henry College

By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY

After nearly a third of Patrick Henry College's full-time professors resigned this spring, The Washington Post jumped on the story as evidence of the "recurring tension at many Christian colleges between adherence to articles of faith and the free-ranging spirit of academic inquiry."

While it is true that religious colleges do experience such tensions, incidents in which faculty members quit because of them are more the exception than the rule. Unfortunately, during the six years since

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