Why A Christian College Could Fire a Professor for Expressing Solidarity With Muslims

Larycia Hawkins, a professor of political science at Wheaton College in Illinois, recently made an unusual gesture to show solidarity with Muslims: She decided to cover her hair with a hijab.  With five words in her Facebook post — "we worship the same God" — the political science professor, whose academic expertise is on the intersection of the black church with American politics, ended up in a thorny theological debate.