As we've reported, Larycia Hawkins, an accessory political science assistant who had administration at Wheaton Academy in Illinois, was abeyant from her job in December.She was put on paid authoritative leave afterwards vowing to abrasion a hijab for Advent in adherence with Muslims — not because of the headscarf, but because of a Facebook column about her accommodation area she wrote about the accord amid Islam and Christianity and said, "as Pope Francis declared endure week, we adoration the aforementioned God.
Wheaton administrators said they were anxious that column contradicted the school's account of faith.
Hawkins faced the achievability of getting concluded from her job. But afore her appointed hearing, she and the academy appear they had agreed to allotment means — and ambition the best for one another.
In an account with NPR's Michel Martin endure month, Hawkins stood by her statement, saying, aboriginal of all, it was primarily an announcement of adherence — not an attack to claiming any theology.
But she aswell said that adage Christians and Muslims are humans of the book, with a aggregate God, doesn't belie evangelical faith.
She was never abstinent differences amid the two faiths, she says.
"They're two altered religions. And we bend on questions of salvation, soteriology — how do you get to God? — and aswell on questions of Christology — who is Christ?" Hawkins said.
"I can't adjudge ... how they account me inconsistent with the account of faith. ... if Wheaton College's admiral and provost and an accessory adroitness affiliate in 2007 active a statements adage absolutely what I said — that Muslims and Christians are humans of the book, we adoration the God of Abraham."
In her account with Michel Martin, Hawkins said she capital to abide at Wheaton.
"I accept spent a lot of of my developed career committed to getting a professor, a academic and accomplishing so in a Christian context, area I can reside out my behavior but abide to advance my acceptance appear accurate scholarship in this evangelical environment," Hawkins told Martin. "And so I'm accepted on campus for arduous humans to anticipate alfresco of the box, and apparently that's why Wheaton capital me."
She was originally appointed for a audition backward next anniversary to actuate if she would be terminated.
Instead, on Saturday night the assistant and the academy appear a collective account adage they accept "found a alternate abode of resolution and reconciliation" and "reached a arcane acceding beneath which they will allotment ways."
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