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A Lutheran University in Minnesota has announced they will cancel a voluntary insurance plan for students rather than comply with a recent Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate.In a letter to the campus community, vice president of Gustavus Adolphus College cited an unspecified HHS mandate as the reason for cutting students from the service. “Recent changes to student health plan regulations and the Affordable Care Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have resulted in our reconsideration of offering a voluntary health plan to Gustavus students,” wrote JoNes VanHecke in a letter recently forwarded to Campus...

Critics of CampusReform.org often charge that the "leftist abuses and biases" that it helps students fight back against are imaginary and exist only within the spheres of right-wing extremist imaginations. The problem with that criticism is that there is often blatent evidence pointing to the contrary. Take for example the Gustavus Adolphus College (GAC) Gender, Women, and Sexuality (GWS) Studies Department. You can access Gustavus academic catalog on the Gustavus website gustavus.edu. Click on the academics tab in the upper left and scroll down to the page for the GWS department. When you click on the resources section for the...

This is pretty awful if it is what it seems to be. The video says it's part of a freshman orientation performance for students of Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, a Lutheran college. Honestly, it looks like the inmates have taken over the asylum. You think parents know this is what they're getting for $40,000 a year? No. But that's the point. I guarantee that most parents have no idea they're dropping their kids off to see something like this, to become a part of something like this. Christian higher education is nearly extinct in this country with a few...

One would think if you send your child to a Christian college that the school would uphold Christian principles and values. That is often not the case. Gustavus Adolphus College, an ELCA school presents some eye opening and very disturbing information to its incoming 2010 freshmen class. A group called Gusties for Restoring America describes one of the presentations, “The first video, from a seminar titled the 'Inside Scoop' (a 'must see' event according to the orientation schedule), features a series of sexually suggestive skits explaining to incoming students such things as where to get free condoms on campus, how...

It's a shame that in the largest Protestant country on Earth, as well as in many other Protestant corners of the world, people who call themselves Protestants usually know very little about the history of our faith. On the 6th of November 376 years ago, military genius and sole defender of the Lutheran faith, Gustavus Adolphus or Gustavus The Great, died at the battle of Lützen fighting the military forces of Catholicism and the Holy Roman Emperor under the command of Wallenstein. Gustavus died but Wallenstein was utterly defeated. However, the Thirty Year's war went on for decades. Thanks to...