The Vicissitudes of Organizational Life on Campus

In Cam­pus Col­li­sions, Chris­tian­i­ty Today tells the sto­ry of the recent trou­bles Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tions have had on cam­pus­es.

The lead para­graphs: THE HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL was work­ing its way through a night of rou­tine busi­ness last Novem­ber when sopho­more Jason Lurie, an offi­cer of the Har­vard Sec­u­lar Soci­ety and a mem­ber of the coun­cil, dropped his bomb­shell. Did the Under­grad­u­ate Coun­cil real­ize, he asked, that it was approv­ing grants to open­ly dis­crim­i­na­to­ry orga­ni­za­tions?

The orga­ni­za­tions were the more than 50-year-old Har­vard-Rad­cliffe Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship (HRCF) and the much new­er Har­vard Asian Bap­tist Stu­dent Koinon­ia (ABSK). Claus­es in their con­sti­tu­tions spec­i­fied that their leaders—though not their members—must affirm an evan­gel­i­cal Chris­t­ian state­ment of faith.

Real­ly well-writ­ten arti­cle by a for­mer Inter­Var­si­ty staffer.