Before we go public, i thought it might be worthwhile to further think through our rules of engagement. In this process, i am suggesting we draw on the logic of "the man" mark hutchinson, in his discussion of academic freedom set out in the APS Journal (http://aps.webjournals.org/articles/1/03/2006/6661.htm?id={CEAD2A84-9C30-458F-BC0D-33A192544C90})
To quote him directly
Pentecostals will need to be able to demonstrate proper protections for academic freedom, while at the same time realizing the institutional and cultural costs of entrenching an individualist interpretation in tenure. We cannot afford to have ‘academic freedom’ as a ‘transcendent value’ if it functionally displaces our real, core, transcendent values and encourages selfishness and subservience. Some form of mutual obligation, entrenched in real relationships, would be a preferable way of running a Christian institution. Whether it is workable in terms of institutional risk reduction is the key question.
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