Why has there been zero recognition of the new Gordon Inman Health Sciences Center at Belmont? With a huge nursing shortage just over the horizon, Belmont has partnered with some great companies to make the future brighter for health care...not a word to the Baptists in our state from it's principal news source on a twenty million dollar facility for Christian men and women to study health care. The B&R had no problem covering the faltering east Tennessee Baptist Hospital, but can't bring itself to cover a successful project at Belmont...sad, really sad!And where is the B&R news about Betty Wiseman and the student athletes who went to South America back in May? (it would have been "news" in May, June, or July) If I read things correctly, they were there as part of celebration/recognition of the 25th anniversary of TBC's partnership with Venezuela...and boy what a celebration it turned out to be. By the estimates of the IMB missionary who worked with the Belmont group, well over a thousand young Venezuelans accepted Christ during that two-week trip. So what has been in the Baptist and Reflector? NOTHING! Good grief, Lonnie, if that isn't news that Tennessee Baptists need to hear, what is??
News is slow at the B&R these days. I read in this last edition that Tennessee Baptist "overwhelmingly support abstinence from alcohol"...only to find out that the total number of online respondents to the survey was 36. Although I agree with the abstinence part, a sampling of 36 Tennessee Baptists is laughable, particularly to label the results "overwhelming".
What we need is an officially endorsed Baptist coffee: Bitter enough for fundamentalists, smooth enough for moderates, and weak enough for liberals. Then we could get an "overwhelmingly" supported creamer from a B&R poll..short on substance, easy to write about, and luke-warm journalistically. *meow*
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I am a sophomore at Belmont, and this all started heating up when I arrived on campus last year. Belmont is growing so much and its so great to be a part of this great university! It's dissapointing that the TBC feels that they have control over the University. Belmont is not what it was 50 years ago -- Baptists are now only a fraction of the student body -- this is a great institution for higher learning, and the school is quite diverse. We see Belmont moving up the charts and it will quickly become a top University in our nation -- for its music programs, nuring and health care, entrepreneurship, NCAA basketball, and everything else!! Belmont, make your move and get out of this mess. You are widely supported by this community and we are not seeing any valuable actions by the TBC, other than their efforts to get involved where they shouldn't be. Baptists are welcome to attend Belmont as are all other denominations, believers and unbelievers, and all individuals who seek a superior education.
Belmont certainly isnt what it was 50 years ago... nor would you want it to be. But the conisderations surrounding the feud between Belmont and the TBC are huge and cant be brushed off.
Belmont has taken turn toward in recent years. While this has allowed many more people of various backgrounds to come to Belmont and has made it a more vibrant campus in many ways, it has also, I fear, eroded some of its core values. I have a friend who came to Belmont from Texas to major in Music Business. It was months after he got there before he realized that Belmont was a "Christian" school, much less a "Baptist" school. That in itself should be disturbing. And this was while it was under TBC "control", albeit under the current president who seems to be for exponential growth and fundraising to support such. (note the high dollar people recently added to the board)... As far as the new nursing school... its a feather in the cap for Belmont and Nashville and shame on the B and R if they didnt report (they only archive a few weeks on the web so I couldnt confirm that)
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