{"id":60631,"date":"2022-09-10T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=60631"},"modified":"2022-09-07T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:20:26","slug":"9-10-flashback-the-faculty-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2022\/09\/10\/9-10-flashback-the-faculty-lounge\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/10 Flashback: The faculty lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

From September 10, 2013, \u201cDonors rescue the Faculty Lounge of evangelicalism<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

This post was, I think, the first time I used the analogy of the \u201cfaculty lounge\u201d to describe the segment of white evangelical America that includes me and many of my favorite evangelicals. These are folks who\u2019ve had the privilege of studying and learning things that often aren\u2019t widely known, understood, or accepted among the rest of the white evangelical world we call (or called) home. It\u2019s a broad category that includes not just literal \u201cfaculty\u201d and professors, but also seminary grads, clergy, missionaries, professionals, artists, and even forklift operators who just like to read a lot.<\/p>\n

We sometimes talk about these things \u2014 biblical studies, astronomy, Reconstruction, biology, climate science, literature and film, geology, church history, etc. \u2014 among ourselves with a candor we\u2019re unable to employ when discussing them in settings where many of our fellow white evangelicals are listening in. That\u2019s partly because \u201cthe faculty\u201d want and need to discuss these topics without always reverting to a Freshman Intro 101-level review of the basic starting points. And it\u2019s partly because we have learned that many of these non-controversial truths meet with hostility, suspicion, and fear from folks who haven\u2019t had the privilege we\u2019ve had to study and understand them. That\u2019s not because they\u2019re ignorant hayseeds or rubes, but because the same white evangelical subculture that includes the \u201cfaculty lounge\u201d also includes hundreds of fundraising \u201cministries\u201d who make their living sowing that hostility, suspicion, and fear.<\/p>\n

That industry producing and profiting from such hostility, suspicion, and fear makes the already difficult task of explaining complex ideas in simple terms even more difficult. It\u2019s good and helpful, then, to have places where we can talk amongst ourselves, practicing and refining the ways in which we hope to be able to communicate what we have learned to others who haven\u2019t yet encountered some of this \u2014 a \u201cfaculty lounge,\u201d if you will (or even if you won\u2019t<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The faculty lounge is a place where teachers and professors can relax and talk amongst themselves without worrying about who might be listening in. I think that also describes the role that\u00a0Books & Culture<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has played in American evangelicalism.<\/p>\n

The bimonthly publication began in 1995 \u2014 a year after Mark Noll\u2019s\u00a0The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind<\/em>\u00a0was published.\u00a0Books & Culture\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0design and format revealed its ambition \u2014 to serve as a kind of\u00a0New York Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0for evangelical Christians. It was a place where scholars could engage one another, writing long or writing deep in a way that the general-public format of\u00a0Christianity Today<\/em>\u00a0did not allow.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Books & Culture<\/em>\u00a0also, from the outset, was a forum for something else that popular evangelical publications did not allow: candid, unapologetic discussion of taboo knowledge and subject matter that had to be tip-toed around delicately when writing for a wider evangelical audience. If you are an evangelical scholar writing for\u00a0Christianity Today,<\/em>\u00a0there are a host of Things That Cannot Be Said without sparking a heated controversy \u2014 even though none of them is actually controversial even among very conservative evangelical scholars. Whether the topic is the authorship of the pastoral epistles, or the archaeological evidence for (i.e.,<\/em>\u00a0against) the conquest of Canaan, or more secular subjects such as the age of the Earth,\u00a0Books & Culture<\/em>\u00a0allowed evangelicals to discuss what we\u2019re learning honestly and openly without having to worry about setting off the hair-pin trigger alarms of either the culture warriors or the inerrantists patrolling the pages of\u00a0CT<\/em>\u00a0for anything they perceived to be a deviation from their factually challenged version of God\u2019s Own Truth.<\/p>\n

Books & Culture<\/em>\u00a0provided a forum in which something like Peter Enns\u2019\u00a0The Evolution of Adam<\/em>\u00a0could be discussed without its existence needing to be defended. Discussing such a book outside of the safety of the Faculty Lounge could be next to impossible. When most of one\u2019s time and energy must be spent defending the existence of a book \u2014 or defending its author, its questions, its\u00a0right to ask<\/em>\u00a0questions \u2014 then little time or energy remains for the actual discussion needed to move the conversation forward.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what makes\u00a0Books & Culture<\/em>\u00a0an invaluable safe space for evangelical scholars, and why so many of them were dismayed to learn, late last month, that the Faculty Lounge was in jeopardy of closing forever. It\u2019s also why so many of them were willing to open their checkbooks to save it \u2014 helping to\u00a0raise more than $250,000 to rescue\u00a0B&C<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from the budget crisis that parent-company Christianity Today said would otherwise have ended it for good. And it\u2019s also why several\u00a0evangelical colleges and seminaries have pledged continued funding\u00a0to ensure\u00a0B&C\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0financial health through the next four years.<\/p>\n

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For an example of the sort of Things That Cannot Be Said I\u2019m referring to above, check out this oddball little post on\u00a0CT\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0\u201cGleanings\u201d blog discussing \u201cSnake Handling History in Six Bites<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate Tracy\u2019s post marks the debut of NatGeo\u2019s new reality show on snake-handling Pentecostal ministers,\u00a0Snake Salvation<\/em><\/a>. Tracy\u2019s first \u201cbite\u201d notes the purported biblical basis for the practice:<\/p>\n

The practice began in 1910 when an illiterate Tennessee preacher\u00a0tried to literally apply\u00a0Mark 16:18: \u201cThey will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them\u2026\u201d (ESV). However, scholars\u00a0debate the authenticity\u00a0of that passage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last sentence is a\u00a0faux pas.<\/em>\u00a0That\u2019s Faculty-Lounge language, not the sort of thing that can be casually admitted in a classroom in front of the children.<\/p>\n

The scholarly debate over the authenticity of the \u201clong\u201d ending of Mark (verses 9-20 of chapter 16) is not, in fact, controversial \u2014 not even among conservative evangelical scholars. But among the general evangelical public, that debate is extremely controversial \u2014 so much so that it\u2019s professionally dangerous for any evangelical scholar to publicly admit sharing any doubts about \u201cthe authenticity of that passage.\u201d Expressing doubt about the \u201cauthenticity\u201d of any passage in the Bible can lead to termination, blacklisting, donor-boycotts and worse.<\/p>\n

That snake-bites story was just posted this evening and hasn\u2019t yet received any comments. Maybe it\u2019ll escape the notice of the Inerrancy Police and the hyper-vigilant Defenders of the Authority of the Scripture. Maybe the DotAotS will let this violation slip by because they don\u2019t want to seem like they\u2019re defending snake-handlers. But I\u2019m guessing we\u2019ll soon see some comments there directing some of their perpetual indignation toward the suggestion that any passage of their inspired holy text might not be authentic.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the difference between the Faculty Lounge and the classroom \u2014 between the sort of discussion it\u2019s possible to have in the pages of\u00a0Books & Culture<\/em>\u00a0and the sort of discussion it\u2019s impossible to have in the pages of\u00a0Christianity Today<\/em>. Mention the dubious provenance of Mark 16:9-20 in the Faculty Lounge and the other professors will nod their heads in agreement at this bit of unremarkable common knowledge. Mention such a thing in the classroom and several children will go into an uproar, loudly pointing out that 2 Timothy 3:16 clearly\u00a0proves<\/em>\u00a0that all of Mark 16 must be authentically \u201cgiven by inspiration of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

(And if such a student says that \u201cPaul says<\/em>\u00a0in 2 Timothy 3:16 \u2026\u201d a prudent professor will recognize that any response involving the unlikelihood of Pauline authorship of 2 Timothy would only make matters worse. That\u2019s a Faculty Lounge discussion and yet another of the Things Which Cannot Be Said in front of the children.)<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s important to note that this enforced duality isn\u2019t exclusively a matter of financial prudence on the part of evangelical scholars. Skepticism about the role that money plays in such duality is certainly warranted \u2014 particularly since monetary threats of financial ruin are the principle weapon employed by the would-be tribal gatekeepers, who seem, themselves, motivated in large measure by the lucrative financial prospect of positioning themselves as the Defenders of the Authority of the Scriptures (see for example, \u201cWhite evangelical gatekeeping: A particularly ugly example in real time<\/a>\u201c).<\/p>\n

But convenience is as much a part of this as any supposed cowardice. Choosing to discuss certain things only amongst one\u2019s peers in the Faculty Lounge is a way of avoiding interruptions and distractions that would likely derail any fruitful conversation.<\/p>\n

This duality also arises from an important pastoral concern. The loudest objections to honest discussion tend to come from the professional witch-hunters \u2014 people like Al Mohler, Owen Strachan, Denny Burke, etc., who have a direct financial stake in branding themselves as the belligerent (and sanctimoniously \u201cdisappointed\u201d \u2014 oh, how it\u00a0grieves<\/em>\u00a0them to have to say such things \u2026) defenders of a twisted Bonsai orthodoxy. But the larger pool of those offended are the many people who have been led astray by those same professionals. And careless candor threatens to do further harm to the victims of the witch-hunters\u2019 \u201cministry\u201d \u2014 those whose faith has been rendered fragile and brittle by accepting the all-or-nothing bundle of truth and lies that folks like Mohler are selling.<\/p>\n

Too much honesty indelicately delivered might break a bruised reed. Someone who has been indoctrinated with, for example, the toxic all-or-nothing claims of young-Earth creationism may be in a state in which being told that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old is tantamount to being told that Jesus doesn\u2019t love them and life is meaningless. It doesn\u2019t matter if that\u2019s illogical \u2014 that none of that necessarily follows or even possibly follows. They\u2019ve been conditioned to think that it does, and so they\u2019re not going to be able to receive brutal honesty as anything other than brutality.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t indefinitely spare them the inevitable crisis that the lies of the witch-hunters have laid in their path, but we ought to do our best to make that crisis\u00a0less<\/em>\u00a0cruel and traumatizing, not more so.<\/p>\n

My own take on this pastoral consideration is to try to be as gentle as possible so as not to break a bruised reed, while, at the same time, hitting back \u2014\u00a0hard<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 at the reed-bruising charlatans responsible for causing so many to be in such a vulnerable, unsustainable state. The first pastoral obligation to the victims of such abuse is to protect them from further abuse.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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