Penn State, the NCAA Sanctions and Cultural Change

          Myself, I don't have a proud emotional attachment to a BigTen school, but I have a lot of colleagues who do (namely Hawkeyes). I can't imagine what those involved in Penn State's football program are going through right now.
          I follow the blog of a philosophy prof at Calvin, whose article on the future of Penn State's football program in light of the NCAA's sanctions made it to the Detroit Free Press. He makes some good points and raises some good questions about justice, restoration and, arguably, even forms of ministry.

          "In his book To Change the World, University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter articulates a theory of cultural change that might temper the N.C.A.A.’s hope in this regard. 'Cultural change is most enduring,' Hunter concludes, 'when it penetrates the structure of our imagination, frameworks of knowledge and discussion, the perception of everyday reality.' In other words, cultural change happens when the ethos of an institution or organization is captivated by a different story, when it imagines itself differently."

          You can read the rest here.