I was just notified from a friend in Waco that Baylor University fired David Lyle Jeffrey as provost. Those of you who have been following the Baylor saga are familiar with the controversy former Baylor president Robert Sloan caused when he wanted to make Baylor a Christian university. The Texas Baptist mafia always gets their man. Sloan is out; and now, apparently, Jeffrey as well.
This is yet another victory for a liberal Baptist version of “soul competency,” in which privatized personal “faith” has little to do with higher education or worldview structures. It is what those of you in other traditions will recognize right off as secularism.
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