Belmont University wants to elect its own trustees. Leaders in the Tennessee Baptist Convention want to dismiss the current trustees and appoint new ones.
Associated Baptist Press reports that the Executive Board of TBC has called a special meeting of the Convention on May 9th to deal with the issue.
Belmont Univesity is the latest in a long line of Baptist Colleges and Universities who have decided that they needed to sever ties with Fundamentalist dominated state conventions in order to maintain their academic credibility.
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