{"id":2443,"date":"2006-05-01T23:58:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T23:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/make-up-your-mind-baylor.html"},"modified":"2006-05-01T23:58:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T23:58:43","slug":"make-up-your-mind-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/make-up-your-mind-baylor.html","title":{"rendered":"Make up your mind, Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love us or hate us Katliks?<\/p>\n

There’s been conversation of late at Baylor University about what – if anything – the university can gain from interacting from Roman Catholics and from the experience of Catholic universities like Notre Dame.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Larger context is continuing conflicts at Baylor over identity over the past few years. Jay Anderson, an alumn, has some links here)<\/a><\/p>\n

Then Rod Dreher reports on a more recent kerfuffle<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here at the News, we met this afternoon with Dr. John Lilley<\/span><\/a>, the new president of Baptist-affiliated Baylor University. At the end, I asked him what he thought of a recent controversy in which a campus satirical group, the NoZe Bros., paraded a member in a university ceremony dressed as a pregnant Catholic nun. Some Catholics on Baylor’s campus were offended, and wrote to the campus paper to say so<\/span><\/a>. What does he think? I wanted to know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love us or hate us Katliks? There’s been conversation of late at Baylor University about what – if anything – the university can gain from interacting from Roman Catholics and from the experience of Catholic universities like Notre Dame. (Larger context is continuing conflicts at Baylor over identity over the past few years. 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