{"id":21947,"date":"2016-08-18T17:08:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcpathway.local\/?p=21947"},"modified":"2019-07-29T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:45:51","slug":"cccu-board-considers-membership-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2016\/08\/18\/cccu-board-considers-membership-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"CCCU board considers membership requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s3\">ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) \u2013<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) board of directors is considering recommendations for new membership and affiliate guidelines during meetings this week, amid differences over same-sex marriage hiring policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The regular July board meeting \u2013 taking place at the council\u2019s Oxford study abroad location \u2013 comes after a special task force spent nine months exploring CCCU\u2019s categories of affiliation. The task force has submitted its final report, so the board can now approve it, amend and approve it, or vote it down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Last July, following the Supreme Court\u2019s Obergefell decision legalizing same-sex marriage, two CCCU member schools, Eastern Mennonite University and Goshen College, announced new hiring policies to include non-celibate homosexual faculty and staff. At the end of a two-month consultation with members, the two schools voluntarily withdrew from the council in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The board said the process revealed that a \u201clack of clarity, purpose, and common understanding exists about the various associational categories within the CCCU.\u201d In response, the board formed a task force to \u201cexplore how the council will remain rooted in historic Christianity while also fruitfully engaging with other institutions seeking to advance the cause of Christian higher education or religious freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Philip Ryken, president of Wheaton College, and Barry Corey, president of Biola University, co-chaired the task force, which included a range of theological perspectives within the CCCU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Most observers do not expect the just-completed recommendations to include a shift in the council\u2019s requirements for full membership, since most schools still hold to the church\u2019s historic teaching on marriage. It is less clear whether the recommendations will make accommodation for schools such as Eastern Mennonite and Goshen, who, even as non-members, may want to partner with the council on other issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI view this as a very important, albeit not an all-important, issue,\u201d said Taylor University professor Bill Ringenberg, a leading Christian higher education expert, who noted the incarnation of Christ and related matters should come first. He said religiously serious evangelical and Catholic institutions should work together to promote religious freedom: \u201cI would favor more unity rather than less unity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Last year\u2019s Obergefell decision has tested that unity like never before. Cedarville and Shorter universities recently withdrew from the CCCU, making at least eight departures in the last 12 months. Three Mennonite schools voluntarily left because they changed their hiring policies, while five others \u2013 including Union University, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, and The Master\u2019s College \u2013 left for other reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Cedarville president Thomas White said he was dismayed last September to learn, according to a CCCU statement, only about 25 percent of members desired no affiliation with schools that affirm same-sex marriage. Upon White\u2019s recommendation, Cedarville\u2019s board of trustees voted unanimously to leave the council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIn this time of cultural chaos, we felt it necessary to communicate our convictions clearly, while maintaining compassion toward those who disagree,\u201d White said. \u201cWe quietly resigned from the CCCU in mid-February, while recognizing that other conservative schools may have chosen to remain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI pray that the report will communicate a clear path forward for the authority of Scripture and the biblical view of marriage without compromise,\u201d White said. \u201cIf that happens, we would consider returning to the CCCU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Since the task force formed last year, the council has added four new board members: Andy Crouch, executive editor of Christianity Today; L. Randolph Lowry, president of Lipscomb University; Claude Pressnell, president of Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association; and Evans Whitaker, president of Anderson University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities is considering membership and affiliate guidelines amid differences over same-sex marriage hiring policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192208,"featured_media":20532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[7,47,12,17,19,27,236,293,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CCCU board considers membership requirements<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Council for Christian Colleges &amp; Universities is considering membership &amp; affiliate guidelines regarding same-sex marriage hiring policies\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2016\/08\/18\/cccu-board-considers-membership-requirements\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CCCU board considers membership requirements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Council for Christian Colleges &amp; Universities is considering membership &amp; affiliate guidelines regarding same-sex marriage hiring policies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2016\/08\/18\/cccu-board-considers-membership-requirements\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pathway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mbcpathway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-18T22:08:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-29T19:45:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/christian-1281948_1280-e1461168107909.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"496\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"J.C. 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