{"id":1053,"date":"2024-03-27T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2024-03-27T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:51:05","slug":"seminary-dispute-could-be-resolved-privately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/seminary-dispute-could-be-resolved-privately\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminary Dispute Could be Resolved Privately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Adam Greenway, is suing the seminary, as reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/adam-greenway-sues-seminary-he-once-led-claims-defamation.html\">The Christian Pos<\/a>t and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptistpress.com\/resource-library\/news\/greenway-sues-swbts-board-chair-claims-defamation-has-made-him-unemployable\/\">Baptist Press<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Greenway became president of the seminary in February 2019, and resigned in September 2022. After he left, the Board of Trustees authorized a task force to investigate presidential expenditures; its \u201csummary of findings,\u201d issued last June, alleged several improper and excessive expenditures, including $1.5 million on the seminary\u2019s presidential manor. Mr. Greenway alleges that the findings are defamatory.<\/p>\n<p>The federal court is not the place to resolve these differences among Christians. There are several national biblical peacemaking organizations ready and able to address a dispute such as this, including<a href=\"http:\/\/peacemakerministries.org\"> Peacemaker Ministries<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aorhope.org\/icc\">Institute for Christian Conciliation<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossroadsresolution.com\/#\">Crossroads Resolution Group.<\/a> It is sad that Mr. Greenway chose instead to file a lawsuit, and that the seminary, according to a statement, plans to \u201cdefend vigorously the institution.\u201d In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul says, \u201cTo have lawsuits among you means you are defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?\u201d (I Corinthians 6:7)<\/p>\n<p>It may well be both that Mr. Greenway spent money improperly, and that the board was lax in its oversight, allowing misspending to occur. These kinds of wrongs by and against Christians should be resolved within the church \u2013 no need to air the church\u2019s internal disputes in the public court. And a biblical process could even restore some of the broken relationships here. I hope these parties dismiss this lawsuit and contact a peacemaking organization right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Adam Greenway, is suing the seminary, as reported in The Christian Post and the Baptist Press last week. Mr. Greenway became president of the seminary in February 2019, and resigned in September 2022. After he left, the Board of Trustees authorized a task force to investigate presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-lawsuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}