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Southern Baptists, gender hierarchy and the road to Trump

Marie Griffith
It is no exaggeration to say that one of the most consequential political events of the 20th century was the conservative/fundamentalist resurgence/takeover in the Southern Baptist Convention. Whether you think it was a good thing or a bad thing, time is showing its broader import and influence to be vast.
Campus & Community

‘From Start to Finnish’ July 15

The Gateway Festival Orchestra will perform music of Jean Sibelius, Launy Grøndahl and Edvard Grieg at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 15, as part of its 2018 season of free summer concerts. Also on the program will be music from “Mamma Mia,” based on songs by the pop group ABBA. The concert series will continue July 22 and 29.

Windmiller named to Bi-State board

Rose Windmiller
Rose Windmiller, associate vice chancellor for government and community relations at Washington University in St. Louis, was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson to the board of the Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District, which operates the region’s Metro public transit system, along with the St. Louis Downtown Airport and the Regional Freight District.

If the Supreme Court is nakedly political, can it be just?

Assaults on judicial independence are made easier when the public comes to view the judiciary as a political body. This risk, and not just the identity of the next justice, should be at the center of public attention.
Sociology

Rallying point

Sociology faculty: David Cunningham, Adia Harvey Wingfield, Jake Rosenfeld
In 2015, Washington University re-established the Department of Sociology in Arts & Sciences. Concentrating on the origins and impacts of inequality, faculty and students are investigating some of the nation’s most critical and urgent social challenges.
Sociology

A place of belonging

Students in Professor David Cunningham’s “Introduction to Research Methods,” with Joseph Anthony serving as assistant, created hand-drawn visual presentations of data associated with historical school desegregation patterns in Mississippi. (Joe Angeles/Washington University)
In just a few years, students have come to think of the sociology department as a home, as their own special place at the university.
Performing Arts

Out of the ordinary

Alumni in "An Ordinary Muslim"
Two WashU alumni starred in a new off-Broadway production examining the dynamics of a Muslim immigrant family in contemporary England.
Law

An appreciation of the rule of law

When she was 10, Shirley Padmore Mensah survived a coup in her native Liberia. Due to that and encouragement from her father, Mensah studied at Washington University’s School of Law eventually becoming a judge in Missouri with a deep appreciation of the rule of law.