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June 08, 2005
More background reading
Everybody involved with the Shorter/GBC stuff has been, and will continue to be, talking about the case of Louisiana College and how it applies to Shorter's current situation. And that kind of background needs to be studied, and the struggles that Louisiana College went through do not need to be repeated.
But I would hope, in the midst of this, that there is a lot of discussion about another school, one whose accreditation is in no danger whatsoever, but there has been an equal level of controversy - over a president and a group of faculty, not spurred by any Baptist convention, who had a vision of what a Christian college should be, and started to put that vision into action.
The school is Baylor.
Read these background articles on the Baylor 2012 vision and what it has wrought.
And make sure you read this article that stems from the Baylor 2012 vision about wholesale rethinks that are going on in Christian education right now.
What's going on at Shorter is happening in a larger context of some real heavy-duty questioning about what the Christian college should be. I think part of my overwhelming optimism about everything stems from that - that I think we haven't all fleshed out all of our respective visions fully ourselves, and this initial "clash of cultures" that we're going to face as Baptist Convention gets to know this particular group of academics is going to force us to face some of the really hard questions.
And I believe that, eventually, we're going to see that we both want the same thing - an education for these students that is both academically rigorous and spiritually fulfilling, worshipful even. We'll find more in common than we think we have right now.
But keep praying.
Posted by Chuck at June 8, 2005 11:21 AM