LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Many will support Shorter’s new path
by NEVIN BAKER, Rome
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MY HAT IS OFF to Shorter University. It’s wonderful to see students have a choice, for the majority of colleges and universities are liberal.

I am sure there are many who can fill your staff with professors and teachers who have Jesus Christ as the center of their life.

In our “fundamentalist mindset,” atheists, politically correct Christians and the liberal media will be attacking you, but you are backed by millions of real conservative Christians.

Stick to your guns. God bless you.

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tronman
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April 13, 2012
In our “fundamentalist mindset,” atheists, politically correct Christians and the liberal media will be attacking you, but you are backed by millions of real conservative Christians

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Guess what, dude? Even an atheist can sign a Personal Lifestyle Pledge to keep a job! Once all the faculty have signed because they have no other option, who will really know which one of them is a "real conservative Christian" after all? I guess the same litmus test that proves whether a faculty member has had a drink within the 6-hour time frame? Perhaps the same test that determines whether the Biblical Teaching requirement is fulfilled in the chemistry lab? These arrogant numb-skulls have obliterated any Christ-centered "Christian" witness Shorter ever had. Sadly, it's all a political game but the damage is done. Here's your hat, sir.
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AKay
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April 12, 2012
It is wonderful for students to have choices. Shorter needs to take "liberal arts" out of their mission statement if they are going to continue down this road because it seems like they are leading their students down a path of limitations, instead of choices. But that's okay because there are plenty of Christian institutions of higher learning in America where students who have Christ as the foundation of their life can receive an accredited liberal arts education. You know, if you look back at a meeting in Washington D.C. in October of 2010, it all boils down to faith-based institutions receiving financial aid funds. All about money. Now how Christian is that.
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Savedandsanctified
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April 12, 2012
What for instance is Nevin Baker's concern about Samford University in Bham. It is no Dartmouth whose feature story in the current issue of Rolling Stone should give us pause.

But Baker, Price and Dowles were never facing the decadence of Dartmouth at Shorter.

Baker, as apparently Dowles and Price refuse to engage the concerns of John Pierce and his recent column in the RNT.

A liberal arts institution would welcome Rachel Held Evans and Stephens and Giberson to campus to discuss their reservations about Price and Dowles brand of fundamentalism.

Pierce is right to voice his thoughts about the crippling effect of Price and Dowles fundamentalism on Christian Higher education.
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