The buzz is building for Adrian College’s commencement speaker this weekend, but the current is not all positive. Both students and alumni of the private liberal arts school, located about 40 miles southwest of Ann Arbor, say the May 5 address by anti-trans activist Riley Gaines will be divisive and violate its own stated mission […] The post Riley Gaines’ selection as commencement speaker riles some Adrian College alums appeared first on Michigan Advance.
“I can still remember we talked about it a lot,” Jerre Stead, 80, told a crowd of hundreds Thursday on the University of Iowa campus, where in earned his bachelor’s degree in 1965. “Mary Joy said, ‘Someday, if we ever are fortunate enough, having had multiple children born here, we want to give something back for that. We want to make a difference at the university’.”
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Ruether, a graduate of Scripps College, was among the first scholars to think deeply about the role of women in Christianity, shaking up old patriarchies and pushing for change.