News on the university front. . .

Cracks in the plaster. . .

• Georgetown University's new insurance policy was announced by a university-wide email blast from the school president himself, effectively declaring that the school health plan will now cover all the condoms and birth control pills necessary to let GU co-eds be as sexually active as they want to be. Quoted from another blogger but confirmed by a Sandra Fluke in other news media. . .
• In "One Table, Many Theologies" (World magazine, July 19, 2013) we read: Like a reed bending in the wind, the post-Richard Mouw administration of Fuller Theological Seminary is bending over, shall we say backwards, to open its doors to an LGBT student group.

So, let me get it right... we have a crack in the Roman Catholic University resistance to the Obama Care requirements that church owned and faith identified institutions of higher education must comply with the mandates of birth control and abortion?

And, the once flagship of evangelical seminaries, Fuller, has decided to reach out in a small way to the GLBT community?  Fuller is the institution of choice among many of the Missouri Synod progressives of the  church growth and contemporary worship crowds.  Could this mean that this might change either the preoccupation of some in the LCMS for this institution or change the opinions of some within the LCMS toward the GLBT agenda?  We already have such groups on the Valpo campus.  What does this mean for the Valparaiso University and Concordia Seminary - St. Louis  connection?  There are undoubtedly pressures upon Missouri's campuses to allow such groups.  The changes would certainly not come through the front door but drift in from a side or back entrance -- both insurance and student GLBT groups.  These have both been commonplace among ELCA campuses for many years.  Wait and see...