Members of a Liberty University alumni group plan to return their diplomas to the school to protest Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s staunch defense of President Donald Trump’s comments about the violent Aug. 12 protest in Charlottesville, Va. A group of Liberty graduates on Thursday launched a Facebook page called “Return your diploma to LU,” calling for alumni to mail their diplomas back to Falwell by Sept.

The University of Texas at Austin removed three Confederate monuments early Monday in an attempt to avoid controversy before students return to campus for the fall semester. University President Greg Fenves announced the decision Sunday evening and maintenance crews began work overnight. Fenves said after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 he could no longer justify retaining the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John Reagan located on campus.

One week ago, a death in Charlottesville, Va., showed us the danger embedded in our current national divisiveness. We have great need for the transforming truth that the Bible brings to bear not just on personal questions but on how to live together in a providentially pluralistic country. 

Scott Allen, president of the Disciple Nations Alliance, has seen societies abroad wrecked when one group of humans considers itself superior, or more highly evolved, than another. 

Duke University removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its campus chapel early Saturday morning. Lee’s likeness, which was vandalized earlier this week, stood among statues of nine other historical figures related to Methodism, Protestantism, and the American South at the entryway to Duke Chapel, an ecumenical place of worship in Durham, N.C., that has roots in the United Methodist Church.

Cities across the country are responding to calls to remove Confederate monuments after violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., last week. Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer asked Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to convene an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to allow the city to remove the disputed statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Signer said the city must act “by denying the Nazis and the KKK and the so-called alt-right the twisted totem they seek.” The U.S.

WASHINGTON—The mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, does not want to speak to President Donald Trump. “I’m not talking to the president now,” Susan Bro told ABC News on Friday. “I have not and now I will not.” Bro said she first received a call from the White House on Wednesday during her daughter’s funeral service, and said after hearing Trump’s recent comments she will not call back.

More than 1,000 people gathered in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday night to remember Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman killed during violence at a white supremacist rally in the college town on Saturday.