Ephesians 6:12 — For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
A Christian, conservative law professor at Vanderbilt University has penned a column that links a series of sad and troubling events at the school in recent years with the university’s decision in 2011 to essentially turn its back on its Christian students.
“I wonder if there is a spiritual connection between Vanderbilt’s treatment of the Christian groups and some of its recent tragedies,” writes Dr. Carol Swain for the American Thinker. “We will never know for sure.”
The tragedies Swain cited included the untimely deaths this year of a student and two young alumni in terrorist-related bombings overseas, noting “that must defy any reasonable actuarial tables for one university, especially one in denial about the threat of radical Islam.”
She added in the last two months, two undergrads have been found dead in their dorm rooms.
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“Going back just a year or two, we can see where the University has witnessed more than its fair share of tragedy and mishaps, to include the rape case involving Vanderbilt football players,” Swain wrote. “There’s even the quirky: last year, a tree fell and injured several people in a group of prospective students and their parents touring the campus. What are the odds of a tree falling on visiting parents and prospective students on an otherwise calm day?”
“In addition to the recent student deaths and the bizarre tree-falling incident, Vanderbilt’s run of bad luck over the years includes problems at its medical school and affiliated hospital as well as an embezzlement case involving an administrator who engaged in inappropriate behavior with a minor,” Swain added.
She is quick to point out that non-Christians “can scoff” at linking a decision that shutdown Christian campus groups with tragedies, and is clear to say she has no definitive proof.
But she calls on campus leaders to right their wrong against Christian students.
“I would like to see Vanderbilt University reconsider the policy that deprives its campus of the vibrant Christian influence that existed before the University adopted its 2011 policy,” Swain writes. “Darkness flourishes where there is no light.”
Read Dr. Swain’s full piece in the American Thinker.
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