A Liberal Arts College, If You Can Keep It

What a 20th century civil rights activist can teach a 21st century Christian university

In the middle of researching one aspect of my university’s history, I’ve been struck by another. As I’ve looked at the experience of the women who made up a growing share of the student body and faculty at what was then still Bethel College in the 1970s and 1980s, I’ve also noticed just how quick the Bethelites of that era were to defend their college’s…