During the Vietnam War era, students and some faculty at Mennonite colleges were involved in protest movements. The FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, saw the student movements as a great national danger. Without lawful authorization, the bureau launched a secret surveillance program known as COINTELPRO to monitor and disrupt the campus protest groups.
Keith Sprunger
The scientific revolution in the Renaissance-Reformation era led to severe tensions — and sometimes warfare — between religion and science.
