The Quickest Way to Get the Facts on the Caner Controversy

I’ve told many during this controversy who are looking for the facts that there is only one thing you need to listen to: White’s comments on Caner’s embellished testimonial (which was broadcasted on Focus on the Family before they quickly removed it from their website).  Listen to it here. It’s the quickest and best way to get informed on the Caner scandal.

As we should all know by know, the decision to fire Ergun Caner from the Dean of the largest evangelical university in the world (while at the same time rehiring him to teach as a professor) is 110% political. There’s the clear pull of “OK, Caner is a poser with a fraudulent background, we’ll do something” and then the pull of “Caner is not leaving Liberty, people love him and we need to keep students here.” Frankly, it’s Obama-style make-everyone-happy-pragmatism…that-ends-up-making-things-worse.

I mean, what is it that would disqualify Caner from being the University Dean and not disqualify him for a professor of theology and apologetics?

We’re not told, and as far as Liberty is concerned, no one should ever know. But one thing is clear: publicly lying behind the pulpit and not giving an explanation certainly does not disqualify you from teaching at a Christian institution like Liberty. Apparently, Christian apologists have gotten the “OK” from evangelicalism to defend Christianity while simultaneously defiling it by public dishonesty. This obviously leaves us asking, what does this really say about the Christians who mass-approve of such behavior?

I haven’t heard whether or not Caner will remain the leader of the “global apologetics program.”  But, regardless, he’s still considered an apologist. One wonders how all of this skews our understanding of Christian apologetics:  how is this behavior “honoring Christ as Lord in your hearts,” (I Pet. 3:15)?