Below please find the email that was sent to Bishop Sisk yesterday at 12:09 PM. [i.e. minutes after noon] Some on the Board have mistakenly claimed that we are stalling. But we have received no response to this from Sisk or the Executive Committee, despite repeated efforts through many channels. Letter to Bishop Sisk (October 2nd 2014 12.09pm) 1. Thank-you for your positive letter 2. We are taking it in the spirit of an invitation 3. How can we de-escalate the situation? We want to find a path forward to return to the classroom and to common worship for the sake of our students 4. Let us suggest a path forward: 1. You reinstate us in a statement (this must be phrased in such a way that does not jeopardize Prof Andrew Irvings employment status) 2. Our working relations in the seminary --that is our teaching and common worship-- are normalized in order to get the Seminary back on track 3. We shall continue to cooperate with the investigation 4. We would prefer that the Dean be suspended during the investigation [as is normal practice], 5. But we are willing to work with his presence provided that some ground rules be established for our interaction: the Dean should be instructed to limit interactions with us (until the October 16 meeting) to the absolutely necessary -and no more (even this morning in front of a witness there has been another intimidating and aggressive statement made by President Dunkle to one of our faculty members at the seminary front desk) 6. We all agree not to make any further public comments about these matters before the October 16 meeting. This documents our 11.44am phone call this morning as you requested. Deirdre Good
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:43:54 +0000
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