The mentor of one of my friends from Oxford, one of the leaders of the so-called "Radical Orthodoxy" group, is a professor at Calvin, who, despite his hatred of Bush's policies, did not sign a letter of protest or wear an armband. (For those as yet uninformed, Calvin invited Bush to speak at commencement. This met with stern opposition from about 1/3 of the faculty, many of whom expressed this disappointment publicly. Read about it here.) Having been censured by his more boisterous fellow faculty members, Smith wrote in reply on his blog, Fors Clavigera, stating the reasons why he did not join in the protest, though he didn't attend the ceremony.
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