Commentary: Cancel culture looks a lot like old-fashioned church discipline
By Christopher Schelin, Starr King School for the MinistryThe Conversation
Blink and you may have missed one of the more recent controversies over cancel culture.
On March 23, 2021, columnist Hemal Jhaveri published an opinion piece at For The Win, a sports commentary website operated by USA Today. In it, she remarked on the “Cinderella story” then forming around the surprising success of Oral Roberts University, an evangelical Christian school, in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Rather than cheer, Jhaveri suggested, fans should protest the team over the “university’s deeply bigoted anti-LGBTQ+ policies.”
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