by Jonathan Davis | May 22, 2020 | Opinion
The coronavirus pandemic has placed financial strain on colleges and universities nationwide, and enrollment is expected to drop by as much as 20% in the fall. Small, religious institutions face a particularly difficult future, as they depend heavily on tuition for...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 8, 2020 | News
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) raised concerns about recent decisions at Hardin-Simmons University (HSU) in Abilene, Texas, to close its seminary and other programs. ACTA is “a service organization, not an enforcement agency,” President Michael...
by Mitch Randall | Feb 19, 2020 | Opinion
The tactics of conservative fundamentalists were unfamiliar to me in 1994 as a first-year graduate student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. By the end of my first year, I was no longer unfamiliar. In the spring of that year, seminary...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | News
The news began circulating late on Friday evening, Feb. 7. Logsdon – the Baptist seminary at Hardin-Simmons University (HSU) – would be closing. A Baptist Standard report noted the decision was released by the university at approximately 9 p.m. The seminary was formed...
by Bethany Busby | Feb 12, 2020 | Opinion
We were following our usual routine in the Busby household last Friday night. My husband and I had just managed to corral our children and get them to bed. We sat down together to relax and defragment from a busy week of serving in our individual ministries. We were...