#BJU Board Members

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Who was the BJU board member back in 1977ish- when Bob Wood was first appointed-with whom Wood developed a “scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” relationship. A well known Greenville businessman-banker, lawyer, CEO…something similar.

Laurence Lautenbach? Charles Bell? William Henry Belk Simpson!!? That was THE Belk Simpson dude.

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So Rick wants to show off his meetings with BJU admins, wants to dangle the prospects of a 501c3 in front of well-intentioned people, with his idea of "Fundamental Board Reform."

And collect $$. Don't forget the $$.

There's only one path forward for "board reform," Positives. I laid it out for you weeks ago.

If Rick is not doing that, he's just finding a new way to collect dues.

Be as wise as serpents, friends.

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Robert D. Garrett December 10, 1934 - August 9, 2022

Robert D. "Bob" Garrett, 87, of Anderson and husband of the late JoAnn Neal Garrett, passed away Tuesday, August 9, 2022.

Born December 10, 1934, in Waterloo, Iowa, he was the son of the late Doran and Carol Murdock Garrett. He was a Commercial and Residential Real Estate Developer. Mr. Garrett attended Auburn University and received his Honorary Doctorate from Clearwater College. He was a United States Army Veteran serving as a Jumpmaster in the Airborne 11th Air Assault Division. He served on the Boards of Bob Jones University, Clearwater Christian College, the Wilds Christian Camp and Transformation Life Center. While he was a true entrepreneur with a love for land development, his passion was that of a spiritual paramedic . Nothing thrilled him more than to see Jesus deliver someone from the bondage of addiction. He taught us all to "Praise the Lord' at all times - even during the hard times. He loved the Lord and shared that love with everyone he met. His was a beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather - and Uncle Bob to many nieces and nephews.

Surviving are his children, Penny Crowell (Drew) of Durango, CO, Robbie Garrett (Pam) of Honea Path, Sherri Settle (Mike) of Anderson and Rusty Garrett of Anderson; grandchildren, Charlie Phillips (D.J.), Mackie Phillips (Anna), Michael Wilson (Hayden), Cory Wilson, Andrew Crowell (Jessica), Carolina Emsbach (Travis), Garrett Crowell, Marianne Powell, Mallie Plonk (William), Claire Hirte (John), Thomas Settle, Michelann Settle, Austin Garrett and Davis Garrett; great grandchildren: Alex, Sean, and Ryan Phillips; Gus and Lark Wilson; R. J. Wilson; Brooks and Gracie Crowell; Riggins and Henry Emsbach; Alethia, Everly, Luther, and Grimke Plonk; Stevie and Sammie Hirte, and siblings: Marion Keener, Michael Garrett (Cathy), Virginia Peterson, and sister-in-law, Delores Garrett and numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to his wife and parents, Mr. Garrett was preceded in death by his daughter, Cindy Leigh Wilson, and his brother, George "Skip" Garrett.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pm Saturday, August 13, at New Covenant Church at 301 Simpson Road in Anderson, SC with Rev. Robert Garrett, Jr. officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. prior to the service at New Covenant Church.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Shalom House Ministries, 349 Blake Dairy Road, Belton, SC 29627. A ministry for long-term care and recovery of women looking to leave addiction behind.

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A WutBJU reader found this promissory note this month in his files. It's from 1996.

Now the student paid it off on May 31, 2000. So he gets props for that.

But look closer.

For a cost of R/B/T of $4200.13, BJU expected a total $13,186.41 over four years.

That's three times the amount of the principal.

The interest rate was 14%. In 2024, that rate is nearly 3x the going rate for undergraduate loans.

But in 1996? It was nearly double the rate.

It's a credit card interest rate in 1996.

That's what you call "predatory lending."

When this BJU alumnus' mother told BJU Board member Ed Nelson about this 14% interest rate, he called her a "liar."

But here's the proof.

This is Bob Jones University, folks. Jesus got out the whips when He found the same thing in His day.

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(RNS) — Even when Steve Pettit resigned as president of Bob Jones University in April after citing a dysfunctional board, he had only glowing things to say about the historically fundamentalist South Carolina school.

“There’s no question to me that God brought Bob Jones into existence and it’s his school and God’s going to accomplish his will through it,” Pettit told a Greenville, South Carolina, news outlet in June. “I think the future of the school is bright.”

But some former faculty and students have a less flattering perspective to share.

There’s the student who said she was interrogated and disciplined after her boyfriend gave her a side hug.

There’s the faculty member who claims she was given an ultimatum and eventually resigned after refusing to let teachers at the school-sponsored day care spank her 2-year-old.

There’s the student who reported hiding in his closet on Sunday mornings to avoid being punished for skipping church.

And there’s the student who, after coming forward with allegations of being repeatedly assaulted by a graduate student at the school, said she was questioned by administration about what she had been wearing at the time.

A new podcast based on 19 interviews, “Surviving Bob Jones University: A Christian Cult,” aims to bring these and other stories to light, showing how alleged patterns of conformity, isolation, information control and surveillance impacted members of the Bob Jones ecosystem. Found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, the series has already gained over 20,000 listens. Though the use of the word “cult” is provocative — and many religious scholars argue against using the word at all — Andrew Pledger, a former Bob Jones student and the host of the podcast, contends that the university, known for banning interracial dating into the 21st century, has long been steeped in controversy. The university did not respond to requests for comment.

As a closeted gay student, Pledger was wary when he arrived at Bob Jones’ pointed iron gates in 2018. But as a child of the Independent Fundamental Baptist church — where women wore skirts, the end times were a looming threat and students learned that evolution was a myth — his parents would only help pay for a college that aligned with their values.

While Pledger was no stranger to rules, he quickly realized the Bob Jones handbook goes beyond the bans on alcohol and nonmarital sex typical of other Christian universities. According to the 2023-2024 student handbook:Students are barred from any physical contact between unmarried men and women, though “Side hugs are permitted for photographs.” Students are instructed to avoid rock, pop, jazz, country and rap music, which have “the markers of our current corrupt culture.” Dance with “expressions of worldliness or sexually provocative nature” is prohibited. Students are not permitted to view movies with higher than a PG rating. Students must wear “conservative business casual” attire to class. Student rooms are checked three times a week. BJU reserves the right to monitor all network activity on student computers. Students are expected to attend a church approved by the school and record their weekly church attendance online. “Same-sex dating” or advocating for such dating is banned.

Pledger found the rules stifling, especially as someone wrestling with faith and sexuality. He recalls hiding in his closet each Sunday to avoid attending a BJU-approved church, crouching behind his hamper until his room had been checked. He’d also disconnect his devices from the internet because, he explained, “if I’m on the internet during the time I’m supposed to be in church, I’m gonna get in trouble.”

Bob Jones’ rules are an extension of the school’s theology, which emphasizes the importance of expelling sin from daily life.

“Holiness entails separation from the godless ‘world’ system (1 John 2:15–17; Ezra 6:21) by discerning where one’s culture reflects evil values,” the 2022-2023 BJU handbook says. “By living holy, separated lives, we publicly proclaim that only He (God) is worth loving and following.”

A few months before he would have graduated, Pledger definitively rejected the BJU brand of holiness. In a video interview with “exvangelical” Josh Harris, a former purity culture celebrity, Pledger rejected fundamentalism and came out as gay. Less than two weeks later, he was expelled.

“They shunned me,” Pledger said. “I lost all my jobs at Bob Jones. I lost so many friends, I literally had to start my life over from scratch. I lost everything. I didn’t matter to them anymore.”

If you ask Pledger, it’s not just the rules that make Bob Jones unique; it’s how they’re enforced. Several guests on the podcast describe a “snitching culture” where students are expected to police their peers for violations. If they fail to report a rule breaker, they are equally guilty.

Though the handbook encourages students to “lovingly hold one another accountable,” Camille Lewis, a former BJU faculty member who is interviewed on the podcast, did not experience the vigilant culture as loving.

Lewis told Religion News Service that as an employee in the ’90s and early 2000s, she would hide with her husband, who was also on faculty, in the back bedroom of their on-campus house during chapel services so no one would see they were home. Even when they moved eight miles off campus, “we would still not sit in the living room with the light on, just in case someone drove by and saw we were home and not at a Bible conference meeting,” she told RNS.

The oversight escalated in 2006 when Lewis received a memo from the campus day care requesting to spank her 2-year-old. She declined to give permission and the situation intensified, with questions about her theology of sin. Eventually, Lewis said the university president told her the disagreement would lead to a “parting of ways.” Lewis and her husband ultimately resigned. RELATED: Bob Jones president resigns, accuses board chair of thwarting Title IX complaint

Erin Burchwell, another podcast guest, grew up — literally — on the Bob Jones campus. Born to two BJU faculty members in 1979, she spent most of her life there until she graduated from the university in 2001.

“They had their own dry cleaners, their own post office. Everything you needed. Most faculty and staff could only afford to eat at the dining hall three meals a day,” Burchwell told RNS. “You had to use their doctors for your health insurance and their hospitals. So most faculty kids were born on campus.”

Burchwell described Bob Jones as a “subculture” that “infiltrates” families and churches, creating generations of parents who see the school as the only legitimate choice. Those inside the Bob Jones community had few connections with what she called “the outside.”

When Burchwell started as a freshman at Bob Jones in 1997, she said, she was sexually assaulted regularly by a graduate student training to become a pastor. During her junior year, she and her parents shared her allegations.

“At 20 years old I had to sit in the dean of men’s office with the dean of men, dean of students and both my parents, and had to read out loud this thing that happened to me. And then at the end of that, one of them said, wow, you have excellent grammar. And then the other one said, and what were you wearing when these things happened? And he started questioning my attire, and then said, did I understand how guys’ brains work?”

When Burchwell’s alleged perpetrator and his family threatened to sue her, she agreed to stay silent. But in 2014, after Bob Jones fired GRACE, an independent watchdog group the school had hired to investigate sexual abuse allegations at the university, Burchwell came forward in The New York Times as a participant in the investigation. Though the school eventually rehired GRACE and issued a report, Burchwell said that to her knowledge, Bob Jones has avoided most of GRACE’s recommended changes. She added that after she spoke to the media in January 2014, her father was fired from Bob Jones one month later, after 42 years, without explanation.

While Burchwell told RNS she agrees that Bob Jones fits the “academic definition” of a cult, she’s hesitant to use the word because it can alienate those still connected to the university.

Many religious scholars have long contested the use of the word “cult,” saying it has been misused to dehumanize believers as passive and brainwashed, to create unhelpful boundaries between “good religion” and “bad religion” and to signify groups as targets for government surveillance and even violence.

Podcast guest Rachel Bernstein, a therapist who is on the advisory board for the International Cultic Studies Association, told RNS she thinks Bob Jones does qualify as a cult because of what she described as unquestioning loyalty to presidents and administrators, the school’s insular nature, its adversarial approach to the outside world, black and white thinking, restrictions on beliefs and lack of privacy.

“I find that it is good to use the word cult when it qualifies as such so you know what you’re dealing with,” she said.

As the podcast continues to gain traction, Lewis told RNS she hopes the firsthand accounts will give listeners a clearer picture of life at Bob Jones and prompt them to think twice before attending. “The tattling, the isolation, and the control is the same,” said Lewis. “I think it would be better for people to go to a different place and learn that God isn’t just at Bob Jones.”

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We all know now that the +++Positive+++ push for John Lewis to resign did work. You have to give them that. They didn't know that yet.

Even with all their FB "engagements,"

And yet, Dr. Lewis still has not resigned. Dr. Lewis has refused to meet with us and has prevented other board members from meeting with us to discuss the content of the updated open letter and the first steps of fundamental board reform at BJU. He seems to have dug in.

I'm still really surprised that they were surprised. Have they met a fundamentalist pastor?

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And Bob Jones III announced the BJU honorary for 2023 at ~35:00:

Mr. President, our honoree was born in Arizona, grew up on a Navajo Indian Reservation where his mother served as missionary. After graduating from BJU, where he was greatly influenced by Doctor Richard Rupp and Dr. Earl Nutz of the Bible Faculty and Cecil Tune, his aviation instructor, under whom he earned his pilot's license, which has been valuable in his ministry to those who live on reservations. His summers while a BJU student were spent at Camp Ironwood in California and the Roloff Homes in Texas with men who struggled with addiction.

After getting a Bachelors of Arts in Practical Christian Training from this institution in 1984, he returned to Arizona to the ministry he has never left. He serves as a missionary to Native Americans at Regeneration Reservation in southeastern Arizona. He founded and continues to pasture Regeneration Baptist Church while serving as president of the Regeneration Mission Board. Our honoree and his wife Kathy, along with several other missionaries, all Bob Jones University grads and including their son Nathan, minister in a variety of ways including a home and Christian education for Apache children at the reservation to build redemptive relationships within the local community. He has served as volunteer with the fire department and the county Search and Rescue.

His family earned Black Belts in martial arts, which have opened numerous doors for ministry. Their summer camps, comprised of horsemanship, martial arts and rock climbing, have opened other doors to the hearts of young people. For four decades, he and his team continued to make evangelistic visits to preach to those in tribal jails. They use biblically based recovery materials, which they have written especially for the Native American community. Our honoree serves on the Apache Bible Committee, tasked with translating God's Word into the heart language of Apache people. Currently, he and his team are working at recording the entire New Testament in Western Apache. At the request of tribal leadership, our honoree hosts a weekly radio program that reaches over 30,000 people onto Apache reservations. He established and coordinates a partnership of Native American leaders called Today's Native, which are committed to developing evangelistic and discipleship resources. This platform of reaching Native Americans and indigenous people groups with the Gospel consists of audio, video and print resources. They have reached each of the Nation’s 574 tribes and have placed the Gospel in more than 125,000 native homes. Additionally, he is Vice President of the Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises, where he has been a board member for over 30 years, and since 2016, he has overseen the Family Altar radio program emanating from that ministry and is heard daily nationwide and in many foreign countries. Scott and his wife Kathy, a 1984 graduate from BJU with a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Missions, have four children and one granddaughter.

I might add that as an example of his persevering commitment to God's calling, I remember visiting Scott in the mid 1980s, near the inception of his ministry. [He said that] they would consider their ministry to have been a success if they had seen only four Navajo families get saved, become disciples and remain on the reservation to live transformed, biblically sanctified lives without spiritual or moral failure among their people. Today, for Scott's unrelenting efforts to bring the Gospel of Christ to an often overlooked group of people through a lifetime of dedicated ministry, Dr. Pettit, it is my purpose to present to you, my friend Scott Murphy, as recipient of Doctor of Humanities.

Where do we begin? Bob Jones University has supported Lester Roloff in all his iterations from the beginning. WMUU carried his radio show. Bob Jr. spoke at his funeral. Bob III made affirming statements at the time:

And the proof of Lester Roloff's abuse is everywhere:

And the abuse of indigenous children is rampant and still coming to light.

Why, why, why is Bob Jones University endorsing these kinds of practices still in 2023?

This is Bob Jones University. This. Right here. On Steve Pettit's watch, btw.

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So what can the +++Positives+++ do? According to Eric Hutton:

So, what can we do? As alumni and friends of BJU, we cannot stand by and let these nine board members destroy BJU. But we cannot write any more emails or letters. They are not moving Dr. Lewis to change. Here's an option: Will you join us March 27-28, 2023, for a "Prayer and Praise" homecoming in Greenville? We need to show up for the future of BJU. Save the date; Save the College. Please continue to pray for the faculty. Tomorrow is an important day. On March 1, each faculty member must decide if they will renew their annual employment contracts. It will be very interesting to see the actual outcome in faculty non-renewals for the 2023-2024 school year. Please pray for the students as well, as the decisions of faculty affect them too. We are the loving and loyal alumni and friends. We love BJU and are committed not only to its survival, but to its long-term success. We are trusting God as He continues to lead us forward.

That "Prayer and Praise" event became a "Prayer and Pivot" event. Remember?

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Russ McClure asks in the +++Positives+++ group about what happens if the school closes.

Now Russ should read WutBJU. We’ve had this information for years.

Article XI. Dissolution of Corporation and Liquidation of the University

Section 1. In the event the time should ever come when the Board determines that it cannot maintain the positions outlined in the preamble, bylaws, or policies or the operation of the University is no longer feasible, the Executive Committee shall be authorized to close the University and dispose of the property with the approval of the Board of Trustees. The Executive Committee shall function as the representative agent of the Board of Trustees to find a suitable buyer for the property. The Executive Committee is not authorized to accept any offer without the approval of the Board of Trustees.

Proceeds from the sale will be used first to settle any outstanding financial obligations of the University, for teach-out purposes and then to compensate present employees with a generous severance payment based on years of service and merit. The remainder will go to ministries that are aligned spiritually and philosophically with the founding purposes of Bob Jones University. These ministries will be chosen by the Board of Trustees.

Section 2. The Executive Committee is charged with the duty of enforcing the above provision. The Executive Committee shall have the power to call a meeting of the Board when, in their sound judgment, it appears that the University can no longer be operated in accordance with the principles set forth herein or if the pulpit or classroom ever departs from the University creed, embraces a non-propositional or allegorical view of the Scriptures or an evolutionary view of creation, or ceases to believe that "whatever the Bible says is so." The majority of the Board of Trustees, in pursuit of this notice, is mandated and directed to carry out the above provisions for the dissolution of the corporation and the liquidation of the property. The vote to dissolve the corporation will be made by the Board of Trustees. For this vote, at least twenty (20) members shall be required and must be in personal attendance.

Now that’s the version from November 2013. I have earlier versions as well, and it’s fairly consistent. If you’d like to see the earlier versions, I can show you those. Just ask!

But Bruce McBride, honey. No. Furman University will not be buying that campus. First of all, have you BEEN to Furman’s campus? They don’t need BJU’s hand-me-downs.

The chatter around Greenville for years has been Knox White wants 29614 for the city buildings.

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Will compromise work?

That's the question.

Clearly this is a melding of the factions that now make up Bob Jones University: academic (Gary knows the ins-and-outs of SACSCOC accreditation), ordained minister and student life (Benson), and old-school fundamentalist Baptist (McAllister signed the FBFI letter, after all).

While BJU likes to say that Alan Benson was a "diversity hire" (a laughable, BJU-esque conclusion), his role as BJU's post-Berg-and-post-Newton "Dean of Students" means he's been at the forefront of BJU's "standard" changes.

The kids like Benson. He doesn't have an evangelist's ego charm, but he's been in the pulpit for Chapel (more on that later). He's known.

Weier and Benson fulfill what Lonnie Polson was arguing. This is stable. The Board listened. Frankly, I'm surprised they did, but they did!

And now for Bruce McAllister. He was the Vintage Dedicatee in 2014. He "transitioned" his ministry office to Nathan Crockett in 2013. But in 2020, he's still listed as a member of the Administration in charge of "pastoral relations."

So he's been a BJU top diplomat to pastors. But he hasn't spoken at BJU since March 2015. He hasn't been listed in the catalogs as an administrator since 2017.

The conclusion of the matter is this: BJU had to pull someone from retirement in order to find a person with enough connections to the Original BJU™ to satisfy the FBFI crowd and who would be compliant with BJU.

McAllister is a nice enough guy. He's bland. He obeys. He complies. He's a compromise.

Will this compromise work? Time will tell.

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Professor Lonnie Polson posted his comments to the BJU Board of Trustees Executive Committee yesterday.

Now, Lonnie is logical and strategic. I don't think I worked with anyone in the BJU Speech dept who more clearly demonstrated the gift of administration as the Apostle Paul describes it. He's a problem-solver through and through.

So when Lonnie gives advice, honestly? You should listen. Just sayin'. And he told the Executive Committee:

I'm writing to petition the executive committee of the board to name Dr. Gary Weier (or another current administrator or senior faculty member) as interim president. It's been an incredibly stressful year for the BJU family. What the faculty and students need most is a season of stability and healing. My fear is that naming an interim from outside the current leadership would be counterproductive to meeting that need. I believe also that naming a current administrator or senior faculty member as interim would send a reassuring message to those who are considering attending BJU. We have so many potential applicants who have not yet "pulled the trigger" on full application because they're taking a wait-and-see approach. I can't blame them. We could do much to communicate stability and viability to our constituency by appointing a known entity from within the current leadership as the face of the school. Frankly, the primary existential threat to the university is low enrollment. Naming a current administrator or senior faculty member as interim would also allow the board adequate time to recruit and vet a new president without having to onboard a temporary one. I do not presume to speak for the entire faculty, but I'm convinced nearly all of us would give similar input. Thanks for listening.

The big takeaways here are, it seems to me:

The BJU students and employees are exhausted.

Applicants for the Class of 2027 are hesitant.

Low enrollment is imminent and would kill BJU.

A temporary/interim needs to be an internal hire.

Gary Weier would be the best choice.

Lonnie's right, of course. I can't say that loudly enough. When Lonnie gives advice, you should listen.

Will they?

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The people interviewing with the Board are not mincing words.

For instance, no BJU president ever has been an official member of a local church.

Right now you're thinking, "Wait. I know Dr. Bob was a member of [insert the church you attended]." Every BJU person has said that. Every one assumes that BJU's top man was a member at their own church. He can't be a member of Hampton Park, Mount Calvary, and Heritage at the same time.

That means, as candidates have been explaining to the Board, that BJU's top man is under no one's authority. He is at the top of the accountability food chain.

That's not good.

I remember when there was a push for the Administrators to finally join a local church. Only two had been members of a church. When Darren Lawson finally joined Heritage Bible, his son had to be baptized at age 17 in order to join.

Think of it -- a child of a BJU administrator had not received this very important Christian sacrament.

Many other BJU employees never attended any church outside the campus.

They never had communion. Their children or they themselves had not been baptized. That's bad.

This is really bad. No accountability. No baptism. No communion. Can you call yourself a Christian without these things?

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Oh yeah. It is time for transparency. I seem to remember some BJU grads saying that at graduation in 2012. Remember?

We even had a list of demands:

Appoint all top-tier administrators and board members from outside the Jones family.

Make all financial operations public.

Stop administrative hazing of students and employees.

Institute a Student Bill of Rights.

Cooperate with the Julie Valentine Center to oversee sexual abuse prevention on campus.

Hire faculty from outside Bob Jones University’s educational, familial, and ecclesiastical network.

Guarantee academic freedom without retribution.

Establish a faculty senate so faculty can govern all academic decisions.

Pay faculty competitive wages at all costs.

Choose department chairs with terminal degrees from regionally accredited institutions.

Encourage faculty to interact within their academic disciplines.

Allow employees and students to attend a local church according to the dictates of their conscience.

Create an honor code of conduct for students that permits and encourages free speech and conscientious dissent.

Separate the spiritual life of the students from the discipline system.

Banish all INFOMAN codes.

Communicate the facts about national accreditation risks and Bob Jones University’s standing within regional accreditation bodies.

Make the Alumni Association independent of Bob Jones University.

Tell the truth about Bob Jones University’s history and political alignments.

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Rick Altizer, President +++Positive+++, posted this this morning at 7:45am on Friday, April 7, 2023 -- Good Friday.

But now it's deleted.

Since WutBJU, too, “has a duty to disclose confidential information," I include it here for the record. This shows the +++Positives+++ agenda:

Before we pause to meditate and worship our Risen Lord, a few clean up notes from yesterday:

First, we are thankful that John Lewis did the right thing (finally) yesterday and resigned. Based on the facts of the situation, we believe there are at least two other board members who also need to resign--Joe Helm and Hantz Bernard. They were in league with John Lewis throughout the leadership crisis of the last year. This was a completely avoidable and intentional campaign on their part to unseat a much loved and effective university president before his final term. They need to resign immediately so the board can begin the process of moving forward.

Secondly, we were surprised and offended by the "official" Dear Alumni post yesterday around 5pm. While positive bju is not the only Facebook group and certainly not the only Facebook group who needed to hear their oddly timed message, we are the only alumni and friends group who confronted the unethical behavior of the BJU board and single-mindedly defended Dr. Pettit. No good deed goes unpunished, comes to mind.

For those of you who have followed the action closely and consistently (most of you) we have defended and praised the BJU Alumni Association and supported the student recruitment team consistently. We will continue to do this, though with less enthusiasm perhaps until we have an opportunity to discuss with them the purpose and intent of their public letter to all alumni.

With regards to the letter itself. We agree that name calling including wishing harm to anyone has no place in social media. We agree that outside groups like FBI should refrain from trying to exert undue influence over the board at BJU. We are alumni and friends. We have only advocated for maintaining good executive leadership (Steve Pettit) and removing unethical and ineffective board leadership.

Unlike the FBFI, we have never advocated for any specific policy. We trust the administration to decide what is best for the operations of the school itself. As we have said, we are not "progressive". We are not advocating for more liberal or more lax anything. What we cannot accept is a divided and dysfunctional board that opposes its own board approved policies and bullies and intimidates the administrators. It is not only wrong, but also counterproductive to the growth and success of the institution.

Finally, with respect to confidential information we have shared. When a board member, administrator, or alumni (one of us) becomes aware of wrongdoing, we have a duty to disclose it. With respect to board members in SC, the duty of care and duty of loyalty to the institution is a statutory requirement in the law. The duty of confidentiality is not. While there may be policies and best practices that govern confidentiality on private boards, these are superseded by the statutory and fiduciary duty of care and loyalty to BJU when wrongdoing happens on the board. Positive BJU celebrates and salutes every courageous source who helped to expose the details of the bad decisions and actions of Lewis, Bernard, and Helm. While it has been messy at times, these men are being held to account by the off campus and on campus stakeholders for the first time in nearly 100 years and that historic first naturally resulted in defensive backlash.

We didn't expect a defensive backlash from the university, but we accept the points of agreement even while we reject the tone and timing of it. In any event, we can forgive and to forge ahead with this historic fundamental board reset leading to a very bright future for BJU. Thank you!

[wutbju]

I wrote about Ted Mercer back in 2012 -- eleven years ago.

He was the 1951 Vintage dedicatee. Over the years that's always a tell. If they dedicate a Vintage to you, you'll be on the way out. It's a love bomb. Watch for them to dedicate the 2023 Vintage to Steve Pettit.

The first time I heard about Mercer was ~1993 when I was listening to my first graduate audition in the Division of Speech. A young man from Bryan College was applying for a graduate assistantship. And one of the senior, hoary-headed members of our faculty said to us all (something like), “Are we sure we should let him in? He is, after all, from Bryan.” Her words were pregnant with a mysterious and sinister meaning.

That was Dottie Harris.

Now I was the youngest faculty member in this group. And . . . I’m a little bit clueless as I’ve said before. So, in typical fashion, I just asked earnestly, “What do you mean? What’s wrong with Bryan?” Another less-junior-than-I colleague -- it was Lonnie Polson -- nodded and agreed, “Yeah, I’d like to know too! I have no idea.” And the senior member just sighed and shook her head, disappointed with these children these days about how they know nothing of the past. . . . I think. I don’t know why she was sighing. But I never heard the details that day.

Mercer graduated from BJU in 1943 -- president of the Senior Class. Immediately BJC made him the Dean of Men, and soon after he was the "Assistant to the President" through 1953.

But then it all fell apart. Something happened to piss off Bob Sr. so badly that he raged at Mercer -- raged so loudly that it's still in Dan Turner's official history. To explain his side, Mercer sent this “Statement Concerning my Dismissal from Bob Jones University” to BJU Board of Trustees after his firing on June 15, 1953.

If you’ve ever found yourself on the other side of a BJU administrator’s desk feeling the ax hovering above your neck, the statement reads eerily prophetic.

The litany of accusations against him are mostly familiar. We’ve all been called the same whether in front of or behind our backs — “avowed enemy of the school,” unfaithful, inefficient, deceitful, “one of the greatest crooks in the history of the school,” demon-possessed, “the devil.” Mercer euphemizes the most intense accusation of homosexuality under the term “my moral character” — an accusation that still lingers.

You’ll want to look at the list of BJU Board Members near the end. It’s at the very least intriguing. There’s Homer Rodeheaver and Jack Wyrtzen. There’s Mordecai Ham and Ernest Reveal. And you see some familiar fathers there. Look. There’s Ted Mercer’s dad, Jim. And John MacArthur, Sr. (father of the John MacArthur, Jr.). and William Piper (father of John Piper).

BJU apparently was undergoing an enormous faculty turnover in the 1952-53 school year — a movement that would only continue into the years to come. Mercer includes one letter of resignation in the end of his pamphlet from Karl E. Keefer. We who have been associated with BJU since 1952 don’t know Dr. Keefer. We do know his replacement very well — a 24-year-old Dwight Gustafson.

Then there's an additional statement to the Alumni. Read it. Notice Mercer’s description of faculty salaries and treatment, the Joneses’ attitude toward accreditation, their capricious and egocentric rule, their tendency for hyperbole, and their habit of playing good-cop-bad-cop with the younger Jones vs. the elder Jones.

Just change the dates and the people or the suffix on the end of the administrator’s name.

Nothing has changed at BJU.

If you're surprised at the John Lewis & Bob Jones III behavior, you haven't been paying attention. This is really old news.