This is said to be a “Christian university” and it is said in the news release that Lu was chosen for his character. In a video, new president Lu extols the “Christ-centered” life there at the school.

Two of the keener things about what a lot of people call Christianity is that you can simply declare yourself one and thereby lather yourself in all manner of supposed sanctity, and you can get away with anything simply by saying after you’ve run off with the money that you’re sorry.

P. S. — At the Capitol, a legislator tells me Palm Beach Atlantic University is “Bob Jones on the beach.”