Christian Speaker Gets Canceled by Christian College for Teaching Christian Students Christian Ideas – Opinion

We’re living in transformative times. We live in transformative times. The nation has diverted from Christian principles.

While people may have different definitions of Christianity; however, the tradition is slowly being lost.

Case in point: On Valentine’s Day, Gordon College welcomed speaker Marvin Daniels.

Marvin is executive director of The Hope Center, faith-based community organization.

Per its official website, the Missouri nonprofit trains “high school, middle school, and elementary students from over 15 campuses across the city in servant leadership and character development.”

Marvin presented biblical themes to Massachusetts Christian school attendees when he addressed them.

His talk, based on 2 Corinthians, touched upon a hot topic for adolescents: sexual morality.

As part of Gordon’s “Deep Faith Week,” students got served a lesson without lenience.

According to the event’s transcript, Marvin’s take wasn’t pro-trans.

“We’ve got a culture in chaos,” he claimed. “And they’re trying to redefine sexuality for us. … What was appropriate before is no longer appropriate.”

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“We’ve got individuals that say, ‘I feel like I’m a female,’ and they get a chance to participate in female activities. That would’ve been great. I would’e been saying ‘I feel like a female’ so I [could]Get into the girls’ locker room. Come on now.”

Could it have been the first time that such an eloquent slam was heard by select children?

Marvin made clear he’s not impressed with modern morality:

“Our sexual behaviors are being corrupted and co-opted. We’ve got individuals co-mingling what God has said with what the culture has said.”

The man even fired on females, along with guys’ treatment of them:

“It’s amazing to see that even in the church, my Christian brothers (are) out there treating young ladies like they’re urinals. This is worrying. And I’m concerned about my Christian sisters who dress like they’re desserts on a menu. And then they get upset when a brother wants to place an order.”

Hides were indeed used. old-school tanned.

Unsurprisingly, some students didn’t appreciate the dress-down.

Via email, the school’s vice president for external relations, Rick Sweeney, laid it out to The College Fix:

“Many students in the audience, particularly Gordon’s young women, reached out to members of the college’s leadership to complain about what they deemed a degrading and demeaning presentation.”

“While the source material was biblically grounded and very appropriate for a chapel service,” Rick wrote, “[Marvin’s] rhetorical style and illustrations — which may have been intended to connect with a younger audience — had the exact opposite effect.”

Marvin had planned to give three talks at Deep Faith, but things didn’t go as deep as they were.

Gordon College canceled Marvin’s remaining appearances.

We’re living in very brittle times. Past generations grew up on the “Gospel of Jesus Christ” — that is to say, the TruthIt is.

Contemporarily, perhaps, young people are more interested in acceptance and affirmation — of their “lived experience” and “Personal truth.”

Students were so offended by Marvin, in fact, they’d organized a walk-out for his planned second February 14th appearance.

As described by Instagram account gossip.girl.gordon, protestors were set to “show Gordon that they cannot continue inviting someone who will spread more hate than love.”

Hate, the best I can tell, is what for several thousand years human beings called “disagreement.”

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However it’s now defined, Gordon wasn’t good with it.

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ALANA, a student organization concerned with supporting students of color, shared details in a Feb. 14 Instagram post about a “solidarity rally” to stand with “the women and LGBTQA+ community that were traumatized by the degrading statements made in the chapel.”

In lieu of any further appearance by Marvin, Gordon College President Michael Hammond sent an email noting he would take the urban reform expert’s place.

Rick Sweeney explained the school “decided that it was best to move in a different direction for the remaining sessions of Deep Faith.”

In the aftermath, Marvin told the Fix he’d spoken to students with the hope of encouraging “a deeper faith and not to offend” them.

Anymore, I don’t think both of those are in any way possible.

-ALEX

 

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