Is dialogue on homosexuality appropriate at Pepperdine?
Convocation never does much for me. I have had my fill of hyper-enthusiastic Christian singing troupes, middle-aged men’s advice on relationships, aristocratic ceremonies and the general rehashing of Church of Christ doctrine. I have even had my fill of Holocaust survivors. Occasionally, however, a Convocation offers something progressive – something that provokes thought and debate and is relevant to the world beyond Pepperdine University. Last week’s Moral Compass Series, a forum for discussing alternative biblical interpretations of homosexuality, was met with great attendance, suggesting that it was one such Convocation, a spark of controversy at a university where everything is typically black and white. If the forum fostered, as Justin Kerr wrote in last week’s Graphic, “confusion and division,” it is only evidence for the discussion’s success. Students should be skeptical of certainty and embrace a diversity of ideas and beliefs. Ironically, this perspective reversed the very mi
