As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
https://www.mbu.edu/blog/events-press-releases/new-president/
The Board of Trustees of Maranatha Baptist University appointed Dr. David Anderson, a 1986 graduate, as the sixth president of the institution on May 11, 2023. He will assume the office on August 1, 2023, in preparation for Maranatha's fifty-sixth academic year.
https://www.mbu.edu/blog/events-press-releases/new-chancellor/
Bob Jones University is not the only educational institution within historic Fundamentalism that is seeking new leadership this summer. Maranatha Baptist University, a much smaller school located in the North, announced yesterday that their president of fourteen years has vacated the office. According to the article, the transition was effective immediately upon the close of the University's commencement exercises.
“What does the university say today? That’s an essential question when covering this story. There have been quite a few changes at BJU, which may be what this power struggle is all about.” - GetReligion
By Jonathan W. Peters
Josh Buice, pastor of Pray’s Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, GA, started the G3 (Gospel-Grace-Glory) Conference in 2013 to assist local church pastors. Buice intended this theology conference to “focus on God’s Word as opposed to the pragmatism and techniques that are so often the focus of evangelical conferences.”
“The Board has appointed Sandy Willson as interim president of The Gospel Coalition, and he will lead TGC while the Board launches a national search for the next TGC president.” - BPNews
“The resignation is effective at the end of the current academic year. In a release from the university on March 30, Pettit thanked the students and staff and called his time as president ‘one of the greatest privileges of my life.’” - Post & Courier
“The greatest threat to the future of the SBC today is… growing unwillingness to cooperate in missions with churches and fellow believers unless they are in near-unanimous agreement on tertiary issues.” - SBC Voices
“At that time, between approximately 1930 and 1957, the terms ‘evangelical’ and ‘fundamentalist’ were virtually synonymous, descriptors of conservative Christians.” - Patheos
Terms are words. Words can create a certain atmosphere, and that is certainly true with labels like “fundamentalist” or “evangelical.”
Of course these terms can be modified “neo-fundamentalist, neo-evangelical.” If we polled about all possible descriptors, it would be too much.
So please approximate the terminology nearest to where you are when it comes to using the term “fundamentalist” and “conservative evangelical.”
We have had many such polls and discussions in the past, so this is an attempt to monitor trends in terminology.
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