@GarySweeten2 asked why #SBC doesn't utilize Christian Conflict Resolution.
Exactly!
If #SBC fears theological "contamination" from denominational programs, the solution is simple: create its own.
We're petitioning for such a program - RECONCILE!
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We're petitioning for RECONCILE!: An Online Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution Degree Diploma (and Professional Certification) - collaboratively funded and taught by the six #SBC Seminaries and primarily administered and instructed by WOMEN. 2/11
The Scriptural Basis: Women are particularly gifted in empathy, compassion, and reconciliation. They must be permitted to come along side pastors/ministers, acting as they were originally created, as "ezer" - not merely handmaids or helpers ... but as allies and rescuers. 3/11
The RECONCILE program consists of both a rigorous, accredited, 3-year Professional Diploma (and Certification) in Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution, as well as a less demanding Certificate of Completion, freely available online to everyone. 4/11
The principles and practices of Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice, infused with Scriptural Truth, will provide a framework for a truly Christ-like model, offering hope and healing to broken people, relationships, families, businesses, communities, and churches. 5/11
The Professional Diploma consists of twelve courses and an Individualized Capstone - with the Social Science departments of *each* Seminary providing the instruction, instructors, and resources for *two* of the twelve courses. 6/11
Each course is team-taught online by a *triad* of three qualified, professional women, experts in that subject - with each receiving salaries and benefits equal to their male colleagues at the employing Seminary. 7/11
These instructors will also serve as resources for Southern Baptist churches, families, educational facilities, businesses, and communities seeking assistance with Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice issues. 8/11
RECONCILE! will be developed, administered, managed, coordinated, and implemented by a 19-member Board: twelve female professionals (experts in related fields) and six #SBC ministers, with the appointments evenly distributed among the six Seminary Boards. 9/11
... And, the 19th member, an #SBC Seminary president (selected by annual rotation) - with the designated president's Seminary hosting the Capstone Course Program & graduation ceremony for that year.
LOOK for FURTHER INFORMATION on Sept.1, 2021. #SBCClarity. 10/11
1/4 Alliance of Love against Baptist Abuses (ALBA) is assisting in filing a complaint with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) next week against the policies and practices of Southwest Baptist University #SBUniv.
2/4 The complaint addresses the cultural and "Biblical" belief among the #SBUniv administration, staff, and governance that women hold an inferior and depraved status, due to the order of creation and the Fall, and that all women are obligated to submit to all men.
3/4 Therefore, there is no necessity to address the collective or individual harm of molestation, harassment, slander, abuse, sexual violence, academic inequity, and inequitable treatment towards women because, by default, ...
25/ We have obtained (with permission) reams of court documents related to the poisonings at #SBUniv.
These reference multiple instances of sexual assault, slander, or abuse, perpetrated by SBU personnel - most members of First Baptist Church of Bolivar.
26/ We'll present this information publicly through several publications and, in brief, these Tweets.
The attorney for the injured student (who wasn't expected to survive the pesticide poisonings at #SBUniv) told her these documents were already public.
27/ However, she discovered her *own* attorney engaged in a series of deceptions, including, concealing the fact that he previously worked for Roy Blunt - former #SBUniv trustee and president, Secretary of State, congressman ... and current Senator of Missouri.
16/ To put this in perspective, one student reported that during Homecoming she realized that virtually every married women in her dorm had two or more pregnancies end in miscarriage, often late term.
Is that enough to prompt the #SBUniv governance to investigate?
16/ To put this in perspective, one student reported that during Homecoming she realized that virtually every married women in her dorm had two or more pregnancies end in miscarriage - often late term.
Is that enough to prompt the #SBUniv governance to investigate?
2/14 Nonetheless, our questions are prompted by real events, which if, one accepts the Baptist definition of #abortion, constitutes mass murder - the illegal application of undeniably abortifacient pesticides for decades on the Southwest Baptist University campus.
3/14 In fact, Dr. James Sells and his administration continued daytime application of pesticides for years, even after students' injuries - because the University did not want to appear at fault and "increase their risk of liability."
3/ Question 1: Does this passage in Numbers 8:11-31 depict a forced ceremonial #abortion, which kills the fetus in order to quell a husband's suspicion of his wife's adultery?