Resigning Shorter professor addresses instructions to teach creationism in biology class
by saveourshorter.com
May 22, 2012 | 2048 views | 2 2 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend | print
As promised, SOS is turning its focus away from the Personal Lifestyle Statement. The statement has been a straw man, designed in part to distract the Board of Trustees and the public away from the more critical issues of academic freedom and faculty autonomy. Dr. Dowless, Nelson Price and the Georgia Baptist Convention have repeatedly declared that they intend to uphold Shorter’s reputation for academic excellence. As the letter below reveals, academic excellence is in great peril up on The Hill. We encourage you to share the below letter with every prospective student and their parents.

We deeply appreciate Richard Pirkle’s willingness to step out in courage and release this letter, so that we can more fully appreciate the insidiousness of the Fundamentalist take-over. It should be noted that Dr. Craig Allee, referenced below, was the Dean of the School of Sciences and Mathematics, a Shorter alum and a 44 year employee at Shorter. He has also resigned.

Click here to read the letter on save our shorter.com.
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Almost_Anonymous
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May 22, 2012
Assessment of Shorter's situation from the OBU blog:

http://saveobu.blogspot.com/2012/05/shorter-univ-debacle-goes-national.html
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tronman
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May 22, 2012
Every time I read another article about Shorter and the self-professing sinless administrators who have completely hijacked a really good school, I just scratch my head. I have tried and tried to figure out their agenda. Is it greed? I mean there's a boat load of money in the real estate on the Hill. Is it arrogance? Do these men really believe that anyone thinks they are the Christians they claim to be? When they have schemed their way onto the Hill, pushed away a lot of exceptionally talented faculty and students who are leaving because they as Christians cannot participate in this farce? Is it power? What in the world do they have to gain from all of this? What have they been promised on Earth or in Heaven that is worth economically bullying fellow Christians and creating havoc with the very students they were blessed to be given charge of? I have read where so many people think "let Shorter be Baptist." How about let Shorter be a beacon of truth and light? I don't mean our human interpretation of wrong and right, I mean truth found in discovery and investigation, Light found in the Holy Spirit that gives all Hope and Faith in their imperfect lives through the power of the Resurrection. I guess we all get to continue to watch and wait until God moves in His mysterious ways and moves the hearts and minds of these new administrators to restore the dignity Shorter that they have put into peril. May God have mercy on them.
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