State University Cancels Course On Biblical Insights Into Business Management

Yesterday's Iowa State Daily reports that a class which was originally scheduled in Iowa State University's business school has now been cancelled because of church-state concerns. Finance Professor Roger Stover had proposed a new one-hour independent study course titled "Finance 290X: Application of Biblical Insight into the Management of Business/Organization."  He says many leading universities are actively exploring the role of spirituality in business management.  However, Hector Avalos, a professor of philosophy and religious studies who was one of the faculty who objected to the course, said that Stover: "has no expertise in either academic biblical studies or religious studies, and this raises the question of whether Finance 290X is simply a means to obtain college credit for religious instruction rather than for an objective academic study of different Christian viewpoints about business."