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Last week, Baylor University announced that it had received a grant of approximately $700,000 from the Baugh Foundation to promote LGBTQ inclusivity on its campus. Baylor’s motto is “For the Church, For Texas, For the World.” It describes itself as a Christian university and is a proud member of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, otherwise known as the CCCU.
What exactly is the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities?
The CCCU includes about 170 colleges and universities that self-identify as “Christ-centered.” These schools represent approximately 525,000 students, 96,000 faculty and over 11 million alumni around the world. The CCCU’s mission is “to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help our institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.”
Now, in reading this mission statement, you might think that the CCCU would be biblically conservative, but you’d be wrong ...
