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Texas Christian University has posted a faculty position in rhetoric and composition that privileges expertise in trans rhetoric, Black studies, and antiracist rhetoric while extending consideration to applicants immersed in disability studies and queer scholarship, with the role scheduled to begin in August 2027.
The hiring committee thereby installs the ideological criteria of the present managerial order as the new standard for teaching the written word, displacing any remaining commitment to the ordered transmission of language under the authority of Scripture and the ancient creeds.
Christian universities once arose as extensions of the undivided Church's confession, places where the Nicene faith and the doctrines of grace shaped every discipline from grammar to theology, as the medieval foundations and later Puritan colleges demonstrated before the Enlightenment severed reason from revelation.
By contrast, the present search subordinates the study of composition to the novelties of the City of Man, where language itself becomes an instrument for dismantling household, nation, and the created order rather than a servant of truth discovered in the Word.
The Patristics and the Reformed tradition alike affirm that rhetoric must serve the glory of God alone and the clarity of the Gospel, not the construction of new identities that contradict the objective moral order handed down through the ages.
When an institution named for Christ adopts the vocabulary of the Dispossessor and the Technocratic Automaton, it ceases to educate and begins instead to catechize the young in the service of the earthly city.
The faithful remnant therefore recognizes that no reform from within will restore such captured ground and must now direct its resources toward the building of parallel academies ordered by the five solas, the covenant household, and the sovereignty of God over every sphere.
Parents and pastors who continue to fund or recommend these institutions only prolong the occupation and delay the necessary separation.
