Friday, May 06, 2005
The Air Force Academy and Evangelical Christianity - Where’s the scandal?
If you have followed the new lately you may have heard that the Air Force Academy has become a bastion of Evangelical Christianity. Does this represent a crisis?
In 2004 a Yale Divinity team came to monitor the Academy to see how the religious climate was handled. Their report based on their one week of review has raised major issues. This report has created a crisis at the Academy and has raised the issue of religion and the academy to new heights. But...is the issue as serious as it has been made out to be? The American’s United for Church and State ceratainly believe so. They have published a report that would indicate that indeed this is a crisis situation. However, upon further reviw, the major crisis may be the result of the military acting on this report. Hugh Hewitt, talk show host, lawyer and columnist has written a great response
to the AU report, and I have written a response to Hugh’s piece.
The American’s United report can be found at:
http://www.au.org/pdf/050428AirForceReport.pdf
Hugh Hewitt’s article at the Weekly Standard can be found at:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/573iewnz.asp
My response appears below:
