A Christian college in Nashville is below fireplace for canceling a Promise Keepers occasion after the evangelical group launched an announcement restating its help for conventional biblical views of sexual identification and marriage.

According to a information launch from Promise Keepers, the college’s “representatives cited a conflict in values” as the rationale for canceling a “Daring Faith” occasion slated for the college in September.

Promise Keepers mentioned the occasion was set to “discuss Biblical manhood and the difficulties of navigating the tension between our Christian identity and the often antithetical identities of the culture in which we live.”

Part of the assertion on marriage and sexuality learn,  “As fathers, husbands, grandfathers, and young men — we see the dangers of gender ideology and the harm it causes.”

Founded in 1990, Promise Keepers says it's “focused on helping men live with integrity.” 

Belmont University was for 56 years affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention however dropped that connection in 2007 and now advertises itself as a “Christ-centered” college.

Belmont is famous for its music college, which counts nation singers Brad Paisley, Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis and Lee Ann Womack amongst its alumni.

Representatives of the college didn't instantly reply to requests for remark, and Promise Keepers mentioned they haven't heard again from Belmont on why the occasion was dropped. A spokesperson for the lads’s group mentioned CEO Ken Harrison was not obtainable for remark Monday.

The college’s scholar newspaper, “Belmont Vision,” revealed a “Nashville Pride Guide” on June 1, nevertheless.

The Promise Keepers occasion just isn't the one on-campus exercise to attract criticism on the college this 12 months. In April, an occasion aimed toward “building bridges between Christians and Muslims” was slammed as “Islamophobic” by Muslim college students for making fliers obtainable saying “the Muslim world is in a state of spiritual dryness like a desert,” and claiming Islam “ultimately does not offer salvation or peace.”

The Tennessean newspaper reported Belmont President Greg Jones responded to the controversy by promising “a document of guidelines and expectations” to which future visitor audio system should subscribe earlier than “being given a campus platform.”

The college had an enrollment of 8,910 undergraduate and postgraduate college students within the fall of 2022 in line with the College Navigator service of the National Center for Education Statistics.

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