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Article: Lone Star Baptists: fallout at Southwestern Seminary. (Cover Story)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- April 20, 1994
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TRUSTEES at Southwestern Babtist Theological Seminary Fort Worth initially offered no reason for firing president Russell Dilday. Dilday himself reported that trustee chairman and Dallas attorney Ralph Pulley told him, "We don't need a reason. We can do it. We have the votes, and we will." The March 9 firing and its accompanying indignities sent shock .waves throughout the Southern Baptist Convention, creating yet another battleground in the 15-year conflict between moderates and fundamentalists for control of the denomination. Although other agency heads have been hastened toward retirement or resignation, Dilday is the .first chief executive to be summarily fired. (Two ...
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