The letter described below, which has been prepared for a number of months, will be posted on Wednesday, August 18, on the day when the freshmen students arrive on campus for the Fall semester at Southwest Baptist University.
We believe that the "elders" of Southwest Baptist Unive4rsity and the Missouri Baptist Convention have failed us individually and have failed Southwest Baptist University as an institution of higher learning.
It is time to leave behind the detrimental characteristics that so mark (and mar) this generation of leaders: the political corruption, petty connivance and vitriolic squabbling, anti-intellectual and superstitious railings and fear mongering, misogynistic bigotry, hackneyed whining and excuse-making, and the self-indulgent, self-righteousness arrogance.
While acknowledging the ample good that previous generations have brought to the Missouri Baptist Convention, it is time for the "elders" to grown up ... and time for a new generation to step up to leadership and bring a fresh and prophetic Voice to Southwest Baptist University, a Voice that that will worship in Spirit and in Truth.
It is time to seek a New Spirit at Southwest Baptist University.
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After years of unsuccessful attempts to mediate a peaceful resolution, on Monday morning, August 2, Marie will publish her letter to the Southwest Baptist University Student Government Association, which details her reasons for demanding the immediate resignations of:
- Southwest Baptist University President and CEO Dr. C. Pat Taylor and various staff and professors at Southwest Baptist University;
- Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director Dr. David Tolliver,
- the entire Board of Trustees of Southwest Baptist University,
- and the entire Executive Board of the Missouri Baptist Convention.
She will also request sanctions against the deacons and pastors of First Baptist Church of Bolivar and against the former President and CEO of Southwest Baptist University, U. S. Rep. Roy Blunt, who is currently running for the U. S. Senate seat of the retiring Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri.
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