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...Bynum's misfortune coincided with the divorce by an even more popular Pentecostal figure, Paula White, and her co-pastor husband Randy, of the Without Walls International megachurch in Tampa, Fla. Divorce, once a taboo in evangelical culture, is now a fact of life. But the Whites' apparently no-fault parting appeared so matter-of-fact - few details were offered, and neither partner seemed to take a time out from preaching - that some grumbled about the unchristian notion of marriage as a convenience. Then there was the drugs-and-call-boy-abetted exit of marquee-name Pentecostal pastor Ted Haggard...
...Juanita Bynum's story may read like soap opera, but her travails are a reminder of the longtime magnetism between celebrity Pentecostal preachers and scandal. The 48-year-old regular on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) made her reputation with a sermon renouncing pre-marital sex to search for a holy partner. She appeared to find one in a minister named Thomas Weeks III, wed him in a $1 million on-air ceremony, and together they went out to preach and teach the perfect Christian marriage. Then, in August she accused him of badly beating her in a parking...
...Scholars work out at the boundaries of knowledge, take risks, break old patterns and are enabled to do so without the pressures so common in present day academia—[namely] to publish quantity rather than quality, and work for quick results,” explains Caroline W. Bynum, who chaired the committee that helped establish the Institute. With its origins in Radcliffe College, women’s studies and gender-related research still make up an important part of the work done at the Institute. The Schlesinger Library, which according to the Institute’s website...
From the 1971 Bynum-Walzer Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to the two task force reports in 2005, the message has always been the same: “limited progress” for women faculty at Harvard...
...Bynum later became the first woman to attain the prestigious title of University professor at Columbia...