In March 2019, I received a text from a friend who’s a faculty member at Azusa Pacific University, a conservative, Christian college in a suburb of Los Angeles. She wanted to know if I’d seen the Christianity Today report that her institution, founded in 1899 with the motto “God First,” had updated its student handbook to allow “romanticized relationships” between students of the same sex.
About a year later, I heard from another Azusa friend that the administration had sent out a school-wide notice to teachers asking them to make a “commitment to read, watch, or listen” to resources on “Allyship and Anti-racism.” The recommendations read like an enthusiastic endorsement of Critical Race Theory (CRT), including everything from Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility,” to the New York Times’ “1619 Project” to Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be Anti-Racist.”
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