Professor suspended for saying Christians, Muslims 'worship the same God'
A Wheaton College professor has been placed on leave because, in explaining why she wanted to show solidarity with Muslims by wearing an Islamic headscarf, she wrote that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Her comments have sparked fierce theological debate.
“I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” Larycia Alaine Hawkins wrote in a Facebook post December 10. “We worship the same God.”
Her employer disagreed, placing the tenured political science professor on administrative leave on December 15 “in order to give more time to explore theological implications of her recent public statements concerning Christianity and Islam.”
