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[Also: 7 Principles to Lead as Jesus Led] Also: 7 Principles to Lead as Jesus Led | [View online]( [Christianity Today Direct Newsletter]( Wednesday, September 27, 2017 WOMEN [Let's Save the University from Secular Privilege]( The academy has lost its pluralism. Here's how the church can help find it. Andrea Palpant Dilley Mary Poplin, who teaches at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, has spent most of her professional career studying education, worldviews, and most recently, the subject of "secular exclusivity," which in her opinion has played a significant part in the SFL case and others like it. The author of Is Reality Secular?: Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews, Poplin, along with Barry Kanpol, recently edited a collection of essays titled Christianity and the Secular Border Patrol: The Loss of Judeo-Christian Knowledge. 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