PCC Expose In Chronicle of Higher Education

[nemorathwald]

I was interviewed for an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read it. It's a shocking expose, although I expected it to be even more shocking. My comments were edited to sound much, much more sympathetic to the school and its followers than I am. It's appropriate that the reporter keep a journalistically neutral tone and let the facts speak of the outrage for themselves.

Many of the prospective students will look at the cult depicted in the article as an acceptable or even wonderful educational choice. Nevertheless I believe it will change a lot of undecided minds. It will have been worth it if the article can persuade even one student not to attend. Even if the institution they choose is a religious school, when a student has the kind of religious passion that is willing to consider Pensacola Christian College, they make a great deal of personal growth merely by abstaining from groveling before theocrats. Attendance at an accredited religious college is the most we can expect.

There is much more to be said about my alma mater, but I've said most of it in my essay "Why Not To Attend PCC." I'll make an additional blog post later on with more thoughts about the article.

Comments

[phecda.livejournal.com]

Considering your rants on PCC, the author really toned you down. I wonder how much he toned down everyone else? Or maybe he just decided to focus on stories that would be of greater personal impact to potential students.

However, the whole book publishing industry that they have there is the interesting (and frightening) part. Despite being iconoclasts to the rest of the xtian college network, they appear to be supplying everyone with school books. That's the real blood supply to the organization, and that's what needs to be cut off to kill it.