Christian college ready to start fresh after Bible battle
By Gary Emerling
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 4, 2006

A Christian college in Northern Virginia hopes this semester will be a new start, after a dispute last year over the Bible's place in academics resulted in the departure of nearly one-third of its full-time faculty.

"There was a period of one to three weeks where a good chunk of the student body couldn't even do school," said Joshua Dispenza, a junior at Patrick Henry College in Loudoun County. "It was hard. It was very hard."

Patrick Henry, in Purcellville, Va., has attracted widespread attention since opening in 2000 as a Christian school with Ivy League aspirations. Most of the students come from home-schooling backgrounds, and many secure prestigious internships at the White House. the rest