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I ran across this today reading the online Christianity Today. I first want to offer kudos to BJU for hiring GRACE as an independent third-party. No school no matter how good or bad is immune from sexual abuse problems...only how they handle them. The article specifically says there is not any individual case driving the investigation but a desire to handle them correctly in the future. (Apparently much of the outside agitation leading to this included a scheduled protest in December of 2011 of Pastor Chuck Phelps being on the BJU Board of Trustees following the trial and publicity having to do with he, Ernie Willis and Tina Anderson. Days before the protest was to have taken place Phelps did step down from the board and the protest shifted to the claims of abuse from past students).
I sincerely think this is a good thing and should be emulated elsewhere. However I cannot ignore the irony that GRACE is founded and headed by Boz Tchividjian, grandson of BILLY GRAHAM and graduate of Liberty University and professor of Liberty University Law School. Of course Graham and Liberty have been regular targets of BJU leadership over the years. (And of course a rivalry among alumni.
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I sincerely think this is a good thing and should be emulated elsewhere. However I cannot ignore the irony that GRACE is founded and headed by Boz Tchividjian, grandson of BILLY GRAHAM and graduate of Liberty University and professor of Liberty University Law School. Of course Graham and Liberty have been regular targets of BJU leadership over the years. (And of course a rivalry among alumni.
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