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Plus: Baylor Regents reject yet another attempt to remove president Sloan, and Time gives a close-up look at an Episcopal Church split.
Compiled by Rob Moll | posted 9/01/2004 12:00AM
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Holy Cross has grown to a 200-member congregation, write David Van Biema, Time's religion writer, and Marguerite Michaels. Members include
not just St. Alban's refugees but also ex-Episcopalians from all over north central Georgia. "I'm conservative," says Ken Lander, St. Alban's former praise and worship leader. "Foley took a stand, and I went with him. I couldn't raise my children in the Episcopal Church." Eight Bible-study classes and a baby-sitting service suggest that others feel similarly.
At the same time, the still-conservative St. Alban's faces the difficulty of running a church without a rector, organist, and half of everything else.
It is a heartbreaking look at the divisions currently in the Episcopal Church and the choices facing conservative congregations and individuals around the country. To stay and fight, or to break and start over?
Baylor regents vote again to keep President Sloan
Baylor University President Robert B. Sloan Jr. survived another challenge by the university's Faculty Senate. The Board of Regents voted unanimously to decline a request from the Faculty Senate to conduct a campus-wide referendum on Sloan's leadership. They also declined to ask Sloan to resign.
"There was a motion made to ask for Dr. Sloan's resignation and a secondary motion was made to postpone the decision indefinitely," Will Davis, chairman of the board of regents, told the Houston Chronicle. "The vote was taken on the secondary motion and it passed."
This was the fourth attempt in the last year to remove Sloan. He narrowly survived a vote in May, but in July, after predictions that he would be fired, the Regents voted instead to affirm Baylor 2012, the university's ten-year plan to create a top-tier Christian University.
More Baylor articles:
- Baylor's Sloan survives another call for ouster | Baylor University's embattled president survived more calls for his ouster Friday. (Associated Press)
- Sloan survives another battle | Baylor regents reject a motion to ask university's leader to resign (Houston Chronicle)
- Baylor regents postpone call for Sloan's resignation, reject call for faculty referendum | Baylor University regents voted to postpone indefinitely a call for President Robert Sloan's resignation, and they unanimously rejected a request by the university's Faculty Senate to hold a faculty-wide referendum on Sloan's administration. (Baptist Standard)
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