Lenoir-Rhyne University comes out of the closet

My friend Sean Fagan just sent me the link: "LTSS to Host Author of 'My Two Moms - Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family'" (LRU-LTSS website, announcing Sept. 10th event).

Oh how flippin' "TOUCHING"!! What a fabulous "witness" to the surrounding culture: to simply ECHO its most fashionable Hollywood sentiments to its loud applauding self-congratulation. Elton John must be slobbering up another gay song. Altogether now: blechhhhh. This is nothing less than the vision H.R. Niebuhr would categorize as the "Christ OF Culture," i.e., the Gospel OF THE CULTURE itself. In still other words, Christ has been swallowed up and replaced by a hell-bound culture of pandering narcissism and wallowing self-indulgence. Lovely. How sad. How pathetic. Chalk one up for the Devil.

Lenoir-Rhyne trades 'College' for 'University'

"College to change name to Lenoir-Rhyne University" (LRC News & Events, March 15, 2008):

The Commission for Lenoir-Rhyne, created in November to study possible expansion of the 117-year-old college, has presented a resolution asking the Board of Trustees to expand the mission of the institution to serve a broader constituency. To better represent the future programming initiatives of Lenoir-Rhyne the Commission has recommended that the name of the institution be changed to Lenoir-Rhyne University.

Very impressive for an institution that was only recently moving to cut its required liberal arts core to an 8-hour course and whose recent multi-million dollar donations are virtually all going towards athletic programs.

Of related interest:

• "L-R University to change 'Departments' to 'Colleges'" (Lenoir-Rhyne Onion, March 20, 2008).