Yale drops liberal-Christian affiliation

[Tiassa]

Source: NYTimes.com
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/nyregion/12yale.html
Title: "Yale Ending Its Affiliation With a Church"
Date: April 12, 2005

Yale and the 248-year-old congregation are at a crossroads. The university has announced that as of July its chapel will no longer be affiliated with United Church of Christ, the successor to what was once referred to as the Congregational church.

Though the decision is one of several aimed at making the Yale campus more welcoming to all faiths, the church's congregants have criticized the university for turning its back on its Congregational past and leaving them feeling unappreciated and adrift ....

.... The affiliation with the United Church of Christ, a liberal Protestant branch, came in 1961, when the congregation was led by the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. and other Congregational churches were making the switch ....

.... Yale said that the recommendation that it disassociate itself from the United Church of Christ was one of several contained in a confidential report prepared in December by a university committee that was asked to look at "ways to strengthen the growing expressions of religious and spiritual life" at Yale.

NYTimes.com

That perverse part of my sense of humor that pings on politics wonders if this will reduce the clamor against liberalism in universities. Then again, it's Yale.

I'm sure there are more appropriate considerations; then again, the twinge I feel is more about history and change than it is about theology and faith.
____________________

Notes:

Cowan, Alison Leigh. "Yale Ending Its Affiliation With a Church". NYTimes.com. April 12, 2005. See http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/nyregion/12yale.html​

 

[WildBlueYonder]

That perverse part of my sense of humor that pings on politics wonders if this will reduce the clamor against liberalism in universities. Then again, it's Yale.
...
I'm sure there are more appropriate considerations; then again, the twinge I feel is more about history and change than it is about theology and faith.

just a historical note here Tiassa, USC & University of the Pacific were Methodist run schools until, they to privatized,
SMU still holds on
USC

http://www.usc.edu/about/factbook/did_you_know.html
Before they were named Trojans in 1912, USC athletic teams were called the Methodists, as well as the Wesleyans.

UOP

http://www.uop.edu/about/history/history.asp
In the Beginning
The start of an upstart Methodist University in the wilds of early California.

http://www.uop.edu/admission/admissioninfo/faq.asp#public
Is Pacific a religious or church-related university?
No. Pacific was founded by the Methodist Church.