Reports are beginning to trickle to me about the Town Hall meeting at Westminster today (and not from Doug Green or any faculty or staff person). Apparently Jeff Jue referred to me as the man behind the curtain. Well, I would be happy to come out of the curtain and come to Westminster and address the student body quite openly, but something tells me that is not going to happen. I have also sent my posts to the head of the Board, Charles Dunahoo, since he is ultimately responsible for the ethical ethos of the campus. Dean Jue also said that you should not listen to me because I am just angry. So you shouldnt listen to someone who is angry? For heavens sake, the prophets were angry and Israel did not listen. Was that a good thing. But in any case, for those who heard Dean Jue say I was just angry let me repost a part of my earlier statement and encourage people who havent (particularly students) to read the previous posts as a whole and in particular the letter from Chris Fantuzzo. First of all, a couple of you have wondered whether I am bitter. The answer is no I am not bitter. I am angry. Others have wondered whether I am acting out a personal vendetta. Again, the answer is no. I had wonderful years at WTS. Toward the end of my 18 years as a faculty member there I saw some signs of change and decided to accept the offer of the Robert Gundry chair at Westmont College, which has been a wonderful place for me as they fully support my work and I could go on. My wife and I love living in Santa Barbara, we have wonderful grown kids, etc. As some of you said, you don’t know me personally so don’t think of me as some bitter vendetta-seeking person set upon revenge. But I am angry at the administration of WTS for hurting many people I love over the past ten years and I am not just talking about faculty. And this is important. Faculty receive the attention, but there have been plenty of staff that haven’t been “on board” and have suffered just as much and in some cases more. But it is not my place to talk about their story unless they choose to share it. As a matter of fact as I just went back and read my earlier posts I don’t think I was angry enough. For those of you who think being angry is sinful in and of itself, I have a reading assignment: “Righteous Anger: An Assault against Injustice,” chapter 6 of Cry of the Soul, a book I authored with the psychologist Dan Allender, who by the way is a similarly angry graduate of WTS. Our book Bold Love also covers how to deal with someone who harms you or those you love]. In a word, I consider what I am doing here an exercise of Bold Love fueled by righteous anger against an injustice.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:40:01 +0000
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