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…Working Towards Reconciliation, Taylor University

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Programs and Schedules

The program for She’s My Sister He’s My Brother celebration in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

A Celebration Of Diversity, Taylor University Fort Wayne

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Programs and Schedules

The program for A Celebration of Diversity celebration in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at Taylor University Fort Wayne.

Taylor University: The First 150 Years, William C. Ringenberg

Heritage Books and Booklets

"It is difficult to see any need for Taylor during its first years," the author contends. The sparsely populated state of Indiana in 1846 already had several Protestant colleges and a state university, and each of these institutions professed a Christian philosophical orientation. But the need for the school "up beyond the village border" soon became clear.

The intellectual revolution at the turn-of-the-century cracked the spiritual foundations of major universities and even many church-related colleges, and it caused the Christian world view to lose its place of dominance.

The subsequent de-humanizing of education and the inability of secular higher education …