Shorter College chills the Air

[Stephen Fox]

http://rn-t.com/pages/full_story/push?c ... d=17682416

I understand her to be a friend of the Baptist Joint Committee. Would be grand if some questions are asked about the Nelson Price Tragedy at Shorter

[Ed Pettibone]

[Stephen Fox]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Stephen Fox]

Update on Shorter; questionairre shows faculty very unhappy with Nelson Price direction for the school

http://rn-t.com/view/full_story/1807326 ... st_popular

Lot of new comments on this Sunday front page story.

[Gene Scarborough]

Fundies and brains always clash!!!

[Neil Heath]

John Pierce lays out things quite well in his latest blog dealing with Shorter and fundamentalism. Don't have the link handy but it's at the Baptists Today web site.

[William Thornton]

I'd take most of his points. I find some of the people and things hard to stomach at times.

He does ask this, “Won’t someone step in and put a stop to this madness?”

Speaking of madness, or of diabolical maneuvers, it shouldn't be forgotten that former Shorter trustees created a sham entity and transferred school assets to it in a failed attempt to literally steal the school from Georgia Baptists. That didn't work although I would guess that the attempt itself escalated the enmity. My friend John Pierce, whom I owe a free lunch, and who is the most sensible, clear sighted moderate that I know, forgot to mention this.

The GBC is pouring money into the school because after all, it is now our school and we have to make it work. I am not convinced that it is money well spent.

[Dave Roberts]

[William Thornton]

Dave, I've often heard the argument put forth about the small percentage of GBC (or other state convention) contributions to the total for the school. I've never found that to be a persuasive legal argument for removing the school from its legal owners, although in cases of the top Baptist (or ex-Baptist) schools (Furman, Mercer) it is sufficient for me to have voted to part ways.

The smaller Baptist colleges like Shorter, Truett-McConnel, and Brewton-Parker here in GA require a lot more from the GBC. I'm not convinced it is a great way to spend millions nor a great place to get an education. Here in GA any decent student can get a free tuition ride at the state schools through the lottery. I don't see any great advantage to spending tens of thousands just so they can attend a Baptist school and get an inferior education.

Just my humble opinion...

[Stephen Fox]

Don responded to the Integrity Committee in yesterday's http://www.rn-t.com .You can read that article and the 103 comments and counting including the Night Owl.

And here is a link from the thread, a recent resignation from human resources at Shorter

or google Carol Atkins letter to the Rome News Tribune or find it in letters at rn-t.com

[Stephen Fox]

http://saveourshorter.com/2012/04/02/ba ... comment-30

[Dave Roberts]

[Gene Scarborough]

I have witnessed far too many Baptist State Conventions when a red-faced angry conservative preacher gets on institutions which get a small percentage of their budget from that convention and wanting to control students.

Hey, those institutions get what that idiot preacher sends to them and the students are tired of their SS religion and just want to spread their intellectual wings and not go to chapel services!

Shorter is but one of many wanting to avoid the scuffle---and they didn't make it in time!

[Stephen Fox]

If Nelson Price were trying to navigate this thicket, odds are even worse against him

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/bad-reli ... ss-douthat

[Stephen Fox]

www.saveourshorter.com

[Stephen Fox]

Wouldn't this be sweet, little progressive Afghanistan work for Shorter

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/10/152349997 ... -preachers

See the SOShorter site for May 9 testimonial of a resigning tenured proff

[Stephen Fox]

May 12, at Save our Shorter dot com; Calling on the Rome Community and it public facilities, Barron Stadium in particular where the Shorter Hawks play football; to boycott Shorter.

[Ed Pettibone]

[Stephen Fox]

www.saveourshorter.com is linked in a story today at www.abpnews.com . And at the SOS site great well researched article up today about Shorter's History with the GBC.

[Stephen Fox]

[Stephen Fox]

[Stephen Fox]

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/faiths-slow- ... -cms-19615

[Stephen Fox]

Check their site today and check it weekly. Making a very strong case for SACS and I am glad they are

www.saveourshorter.com

[Gene Scarborough]

Stephen---

SEBTS faculty tried to save their hides with SACS. It failed. This will fail as well. Fundies have a one track mind = to conquer and control

Move on and rejoice that we do have options in American Education!