by Stephen Fox » Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:50 pm
The Homecoming issue of the Furman Magazine has a sterling profile of new Furman President Elizabeth Davis. She is a woman of faith, a good progressive Baptist and the Furman magazine is not shy in making that clear in the first edition of the alumni magazine of her Presidency.
In some ways it bookends the loose ends of the magazine piece a few years ago that I used to spark this series of comments on this board.
Most fascinating are the few paragraphs that talk of her Baylor experience, the troubles of the first decade of this century at Baylor, culminating in Ken Starr's selection as President.
The article says both are people of deep Christian conviction, something that is important to a significant constituency at Baylor. Implied that their secular politics might have a different inflection, they were a good "elixir" to move Baylor past the troubles of the first decade of this century.
Davis walked through all that in fine form. Though Furman is a secular institution now, like Wake Forest chosing Nathan Hatch, Furman is on course to produce some exquisite scholars of grand character.
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