Stay on your toes today, folks, because the filters are off around here.

In a new op-ed for The Tennessean, Vanderbilt University political science and law professor Carol Swain — known for her occasionally hot takes — invokes the tragic deaths of current and former students, a series of events "that secular-minded people will dismiss as coincidental."

Vandy student Taylor Force was killed in an attack during a school trip to Israel, and Justin and Stephanie Shults, both Vandy grads, were among those killed in the March terrorist attacks in Brussels.

But that's not all. There are the ongoing rape cases involving football players as well as "problems at [Vanderbilt's] medical school and affiliated hospital, as well as an embezzlement case at the law school."

Swain concludes:



Is there a spiritual connection between Vanderbilt’s treatment of Christian groups and the tragedies? We will never know. Still, I would like to see Vanderbilt reconsider policies that deprive its campus of the vibrant Christian influence that once existed here. Darkness flourishes where there is no light.

[Carefully backs away from the blog]