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Related Articles McKissic responds to SWBTS trustee Chairman Van McClain4:33 pm, March 5) SWBTS trustee Chairman Van McClain responded to Dwight McKissic’s statement on March 6. Here is McClain’s statement in full:
“I am grieved that Rev. McKissic has mischaracterized the meeting the officers have called to discuss Rev. McKissic’s conduct as a trustee.The meetinghas nothing to do with his race or his beliefs or his right to appropriately express his beliefs.”
“As to the issue that Rev. McKissic learned of the meeting with the officers through the media, the letter to him was sent last Friday by certified mail, return receipt requested. The postal service could have delivered it to him on Saturday, but unfortunately did not deliver it to him until Monday afternoon [March 5], according to postal service records.” |
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UPDATED:3:57 pm,March 7
A trustee of the board at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary apologized Wednesday to the board’s chairman after comparing scrutiny of his conduct as a trustee to a lynching.
Arlington pastor Dwight McKissic, who is black, issued an apology to board Chairman Van McClain of New York after accusing McClain of seeking his removal and likening it to “a 21st-century lynching of an independent-thinking black man who has demonstrated strong support for the Southern Baptist Convention.”
The TEXAN broke the story March 5 that the board’s officers planned to meet privately with McKissic to address what McClain deemed possible trustee policy violations during McKissic’s first year on the board.
McKissic has publicly criticized SBC agency policies against the charismatic use of tongues and private prayer language, the latter of which he said he practices in his personal devotions.
After McKissic released his initial statement on Monday, McClain responded in an e-mail to the TEXAN, stating the meeting planned next month of board officers and McKissic, if he attends, has “nothing to do with his race or his beliefs or his right to appropriately express his beliefs” and that he was “grieved” by McKissic’s comments.
“It was not my intent to bring grief to you,” McKissic wrote Wednesday in a letter to McClain and posted at www.praisegodbarebones.blogspot.com, a site hosted by First Baptist Church of Farmersville Pastor Bart Barber. “It was simply to point out the inequities and injustices I am experiencing by being asked to come to trial without specific charges and to have my trusteeship put on the line with no policy or law violations being cited as specifically being applied to an action or inaction on my part.
McKissic responds to SWBTS trustee Chairman Van McClain
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Related Article Chairman responds to McKissic’s statement4:20 pm, March 6) ARLINGTON?Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary trustee Dwight McKissic released a statement late on March 5 regarding his status as a trustee. The following is McKissic’s statement in full:
“I have received word through the media that the chairman of the board of trustees for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Van McClain, intends to consider asking the Southern Baptist Convention to remove me from the board. The reason he has given to the media is his “lost confidence” in me due to his perception that I have breached confidentiality. In the past months, I have asked Brother McClain to provide me with copies of any confidentiality policies governing trustee material. I have not received any copy of such policies, and I have been told by Brother McClain that no confidentiality policies exist. The Executive Committee of Southwestern’s board of trustees has requested a meeting with me in writing. I have responded to that request, explaining my desire to meet and the conditions under which I am available for such a meeting. No specific details were given to me for this meeting, and I am only now learning of Brother McClain’s specific concerns through the media. I have not yet received any correspondence from him giving me a statement of his specific concerns, though I requested such an enumeration on February 23, 2007. The effort to remove me as a trustee at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is nothing but a twenty-first century lynching of an independent-thinking Black man who has demonstrated strong support for the Southern Baptist Convention. At this point, I will issue no further comment regarding this matter. My ministry at Cornerstone Baptist Church and the planning for our Baptist Conference on the Holy Spirit, April 27-29, 2007, controls my greater spiritual attention and personal preparation. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is very dear to my heart, and I consider my |
