Is it Christian to be afraid of change?
"To be afraid of change is to be afraid of growing up. Change and growth are finally the same thing. Unfortunately, the church has trained many people in not growing up..."---Fr. Richard Rohr I am a Baylor alumnus. The university itself is not a church, however, as an institution, it acts like a church sometimes. The advent of "diversity" as a concept on campus has caused a bit of "a typical BU tempest in a teapot" about what this change in hiring and operating philosophy could mean for a bedrock evangelical institution that supposedly takes it values from its constituents(churches). The recently hired Provost resigned out of protest when a campus group--professors-- stood in the way of change like hiring and operating within a culture of diversity could bring about... ....so, why are we as Christ followers so afraid of change? Father Richard Rohr explains it so well: The "alternative orthodoxy" of Francis of Assisi is of crucial importance