I think I would disagree with this statement in the article:
"Being a Christian means not only believing that a God exists but also a host of complicated and sometimes very specific moral, historical and philosophical claims," Sullivan told NCR.  

I would submit that believing in Jesus as he son of God is what it means to be Christian.  All that other stuff is what it means to be a Catholic, a Lutheran, an Episcopalian, a Baptist, etc...


That said, I am deeply encouraged that this school is providing a forum for a discussion between faith, reason and (hopefully) science.  I've long felt, and I suspect I will until the day I die, that the world today is primed to have that discussion, especially between religion and science.  It's not the general public that gets in the way: it's organized religion.  How often, for example, did Benedict seem to welcome that discussion, only to immediately try to begin the discussion by placing limits on what could and could not be discussed?