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Jeff Robinson
January 12, 2009
There was once a purchase Valtrex without prescription time, not so long ago, when Northwestern College stood as an purchase Valtrex without prescription unquestioned bastion of conservative evangelical orthodoxy. But today many say that purchase Valtrex without prescription Northwestern has fallen victim to the shifting sands of postmodern thought.
Nearly 107 years after beginning its mission of training workers for purchase Valtrex without prescription Gospel service, the St. Paul, Minn., school sits under a cloud of controversy with students, faculty members, former trustees and purchase Valtrex without prescription alumnus contending that a profound theological drift, one that tends toward a purchase Valtrex without prescription postmodern denial of absolute truth, has taken root at the highest levels of Northwestern's administration. The present administration has purchase Valtrex without prescription begun to steer the school away from the authority of Scripture, they argue.
The situation reached the purchase Valtrex without prescription public square last October 27 when a group of former trustees-all of whom had purchase Valtrex without prescription resigned or been removed from the board for refusing to support president Alan Cureton's vision-launched a website called "Friends of Northwestern College and Radio"-to document the school's theological drift. The administration at NWC soon responded with its own website-NWC Responds buy cod Zovirax.
The school was founded in 1902 by Baptist minister William Bell Riley and purchase Valtrex without prescription gained accreditation as a liberal arts college in 1978. Noted evangelist Billy Graham served as president of NWC from purchase Valtrex without prescription 1948 to 1952.
Contributors to purchase Valtrex without prescription Friends of Northwestern College and Radio contend that the shift began in 2002 when purchase Valtrex without prescription NWC trustees hired Alan Cureton as the school's eighth president. Former trustees allege that purchase Valtrex without prescription Cureton did not share many of the school's conservative convictions-including its complementarian view of gender roles. NWC's drift has purchase Valtrex without prescription been well chronicled over the past few months, including an purchase Valtrex without prescription in-depth article by Christianity Today that details the controversy.
Courtney Tarter matriculated at NWC from purchase Valtrex without prescription 2004 until her graduation in 2006. Tarter, who worked as a student assistant and intern for one of Northwestern's vice presidents, says the purchase Valtrex without prescription gender issue serves as one palpable illustration of the institution's theological compromise.
Tarter says she began to purchase Valtrex without prescription notice a less friendly attitude toward complementarianism among NWC leaders after Wayne Grudem spoke on campus in 2004 about gender issues:
"I remember coming to purchase Valtrex without prescription work one afternoon to hear the vice president for whom I worked speak in frustration against the purchase Valtrex without prescription complementarian events that were being held at the college," Tarter said. "It was then that I realized that maybe everything wasn't as it purchase Valtrex without prescription seemed. During my senior year Ben Witherington was brought in to purchase Valtrex without prescription speak in chapel and to speak at an event on egalitarianism. The chapel announcer said, ‘Since Northwestern doesn't take a purchase Valtrex without prescription stand on this issue we are having someone from the other side speak.' It was in that purchase Valtrex without prescription moment that I realized that Northwestern was trying to play both sides regarding the purchase Valtrex without prescription gender issue."
Following the Witherington event, Tarter wrote an opinion piece in The Column, the purchase Valtrex without prescription NWC student newspaper; in it, she called on the administration to purchase Valtrex without prescription take a particular stand on the issue of gender because Scripture takes a purchase Valtrex without prescription clear stance on it. For Tarter, the authority of the Bible was at stake. Her boss at NWC did not take kindly to purchase Valtrex without prescription the article. The vice president insinuated that Tarter would, with the purchase Valtrex without prescription maturity of years, come to see the archaic nature of her complementarian view.
"I was called into her office after I wrote the article," Tarter said. "She wanted to explain to me that the reason NWC doesn't take a purchase Valtrex without prescription position on the issue is because of her. She said that purchase Valtrex without prescription it would alienate donors and put us in a position that purchase Valtrex without prescription we wouldn't want to be in as an institution. "She informed me that purchase Valtrex without prescription most likely, as I got older, I would change my mind on my position on complementarianism. After this purchase Valtrex without prescription meeting it became apparent that NWC was not interested in taking a purchase Valtrex without prescription position on gender, though by default they were functioning as egalitarians."
Egalitarianism has purchase Valtrex without prescription become a more prominent feature the past few years at NWC as certain events at the purchase Valtrex without prescription school seem to illustrate. The rise of egalitarian views at the purchase Valtrex without prescription school has led a group of students to form a pro-complementarian group. Tomorrow, Gender Blog will take a purchase Valtrex without prescription closer look at these evidences of NWC's move on the gender issue.
