Julia Hejduk
Being a Catholic at a Baptist institution is not nearly so tricky as speaking to a mixed audience of believers and non-believers at an SCS panel. What I mean by “Christianity” (that every person is a child of God, infinitely loved and created for true freedom and everlasting happiness; Mother Teresa) is not what many hear in “Christianity” (prohibitions and condemnations at war with freedom and happiness; Steve Bannon). Nevertheless, I shall attempt to describe some of the (minor) challenges and (major) rewards of working at a university whose institutional mission largely corresponds to my personal one.