For the information of anyone who has been out of the Baptist loop, Louisiana College, a Baptist college in Pineville, La. is nearing a nuclear meltdown. Fundamentalists tookover the board of trustees, began censoring books such as Scott Peck's Road Less Travelled, and prompted the resignation of the school's president.
Recently the board tried to hire a Fundamentalist to be president but, after a much publicized coronation, he turned them down. Now the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, an accrediting agency, has placed the school on probation.
A week ago I heard a rumor that Jerry Falwell advised the Fundamentalists that there is no need for them to be concerned about accreditation because he could get them accredited through Liberty University. Wouldn't that be remarkable? Twenty-five years ago, who could have foreseen that any respectable Southern Baptist liberal arts college would even be rumored to be getting a seal of approval from an Independent Fundamental Baptist like Jerry Falwell?
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