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The University of Washington singled out Professor Stuart Reges for daring to place a brief parody of land acknowledgment statements on his syllabus, treating his dissent as an offense against the prevailing creed. Administrators stripped him of teaching duties and subjected him to formal investigation, revealing the Managerial Priesthood’s determination to enforce ritual conformity rather than permit open inquiry.
This episode belongs to the long campaign by which modern universities have abandoned their medieval inheritance as communities ordered toward truth and have instead become instruments of ideological discipline. The same spirit that once compelled conformity through the Index of Prohibited Books now operates through diversity statements, mandatory rituals, and swift punishment of those who mock the new sacraments.
The governing principle remains unchanged since the Reformation: the conscience bound by truth cannot be compelled by institutional power without violating the order of creation itself. Land acknowledgments function as a counterfeit liturgy that rewrites history and assigns inherited guilt without repentance or redemption, substituting political theater for the Christian understanding of sin and grace.
When the court required the University of Washington to answer for its actions, the institution chose settlement rather than defense, exposing the fragility of its claims once subjected to legal scrutiny. The $600,000 payment does not restore the professor’s lost time or standing; it merely records the cost the regime is willing to bear to maintain its monopoly on acceptable opinion.
The faithful remnant in higher education must therefore refuse participation in these rituals and build institutions that once again prize the pursuit of truth over the maintenance of power. Parallel colleges, renewed guilds of scholars, and unapologetic defense of speech rooted in the image of God are no longer optional but necessary.
Every generation faces the same choice the Reformers faced at Worms: submit to the authorities that claim to speak for God and history, or stand where conscience is captive only to the Word. The University of Washington has chosen its side; the remnant must now choose its own.
