As Harvard president, Drew Faust had an entire university to run. Brush fires at the divinity school didn’t normally rate her time. But the exodus of prominent faculty—and the public lashings they’d given the school on their way out—had gotten her attention. Particularly concerning was news that two recent recruits from Princeton were already on their way out. When Harvard Divinity School hired Marie Griffith and her husband, Leigh Schmidt, in 2009, it hailed the pair as “two of the very best mid-career historians of American religion active in the academy today.” Faust summoned them to her
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