Christian College Target of Investigative Article

Here is a good piece of investigative reporting on a Christian college from the Minneapolis StarTribune. This is an excerpt--to read the entire article click here.

An identity crisis for a Christian college

Star Tribune 1/21/10

A debate dogging the quiet Christian campus
of Northwestern College has the president
apologizing, some alumni calling for his
resignation and everyone doing a lot of
praying.

A group of students and alumni has accused
Northwestern President Alan Cureton of
weeding out conservative professors and
trustees to help push the campus toward
"postmodern" theology. A protest group on
Facebook has drawn more than 1,200
members.

Scholars, Christians and alumni around the
country are watching to see whether the
controversy at the Roseville school once led
by evangelist Billy Graham will reach the
heights of those at such places as Baylor
University in Texas, where years of infighting
led to that president's resignation.

Northwestern denies any shift in its Bible-
based focus and attributes the hubbub to a
small group of disgruntled alumni. Trustees
say they have investigated the charges,
Cureton has apologized to those involved
and said it's time to "put this often un-
biblical process to rest."

"I think we've reached the point where we
have done everything we can to resolve the
differences," said trustee Arnold (Bud)
Lindstrand.

Northwestern espouses a "Christ-centered"
philosophy, including the belief that Christ
will physically return to Earth during his
second coming -- a belief at issue in this
recent controversy. Billy Graham was its
president from 1947 to 1953.