By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Dear ENC President Corlis McGee:

I just sat through the 4 pm October 17 musical, “Once On This Island,” in Cove Center.

I am disappointed and disgusted.

This play should never be presented on a Christian campus, let alone a holiness campus.

Its accent on godS–in the plural–was throughout, particularly praying constantly to these gods, in one instance for gods to heal a sick body. There is only one God who appeared in Christ. There is no room for polytheism laced throughout an ENC drama department presentation.

At the Friday homecoming Marriott dinner, when the musical was highlighted with a lead actress singing, she sang out “My God. . .” in the singular. That obviously told the attendees that she was praying to the biblical God, the deity adhered to by Eastern Nazarene College. However, when she sang that same song in the Saturday musical, “God” was changed to repeated mentioning of “gods,” not only by this one singer but all singers in one selection after another.

Further, there were two lovers in the play who spent the night together–unmarried. Such was an obvious scene depicting just that, no indirect implications implied. It was evident without apology or qualification…

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