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Speaking to the press after the meeting, McFarland said she believes the investigation was ordered by Sloan in retaliation for her criticism of him.

"I think we have a leadership crisis at Baylor and it will be up to the board of regents to decide how to handle that," she said.

Sloan isn't worried. "My future is in God's hands," he told the Waco Tribune-Herald. "I feel very confident about the support of the regents. I'm very confident about the regents' support of the 10-year vision of the university. I'm very confident, frankly, about the support of Baylor alumni for the 10-year vision of the university."

Many more articles on the debate are available from the Waco Tribune-Herald, The Baptist Standard, Associated Baptist Press.

Education:

• Professors: Religion angle puts us ahead of the curve | Baylor physics class looks at how faith plays into scientific theories (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Baptist leaders to start seminary | Former leaders of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and other Baptist leaders have announced plans to start a new technology-based theological school in the Fort Worth-Dallas area next year (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Doubting their 'tough love' | A group of schools for troubled youth touts its successes, but some parents charge abuse (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Also: Key to his schools' success? it's God, founder says | Robert Lichfield founded one small facility and built it into a business empire. In an interview, he makes frequent reference to his Mormon faith (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Panel hears a lot about Darwin | Pleas to keep Darwin's theory of evolution in biology textbooks and to not include creationism virtually dominated the State Board of Education's public hearing Wednesday on the next generation of public school textbooks (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  
• Rooting for college-bound teens | After the pomp and circumstance of recent high school graduations, a Calvert County church decided to recognize seven teenagers in the congregation who not only earned diplomas but also are going on to college (The Washington Post)
  
  
• D.C. voucher plan advances | House version clears committee; deal sought in Senate (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Foes halt vote on school vouchers | Democrats reject Senate's D.C. bill (The Washington Post)
  
  

Pat Robertson:

• Appealing to a higher power | Why we should pray to God for three Supreme Court justices to retire (Pat Robertson, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Robertson clarifies Supreme Court remarks | Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Thursday he was not talking about any particular Supreme Court justices when he asked his television audience to pray that three liberal justices retire (Associated Press)
  
  
• Where's the discernment here? | Pat Robertson's blind faith in Charles Taylor should make Christians everywhere shudder (J.R. Labbe, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  

President Bush:

• The evangelical president | America's commander in chief answers to a higher Power (Brendan Miniter, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Unshakable faith | Faith—or whatever you want to call it—is about the only explanation, too, for the rush to go to war in the first place (Richard Cohen, The Washington Post)
  
  

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