#Bob Jones University

[lizardrosen]

is king lear worth watching? a 4h play recording seems like a lot but i saw those gifs of shirtless luke so i’m kind of interested 👀

the NTL king lear is only about two hours, actually, and it's a really good introduction to the play as a whole! unfortunately i don't remember where i acquired my copy so you'd have to go hunting on your own. @suits-of-woe or @butchhamlet might be able to help.

edit: I unintentionally lied here, my NTL recording comes in two parts, which adds up to a little over three hours. That's about typical for this play, and comparable to Hamlet and Much Ado

if you just want a free available production of the play, i cannot recommend the Bob Jones University production highly enough!! it's the first full production i ever saw (runs two hours 44 minutes) and it has an incredible cast and a very clear conceit for a post-civil war setting edging into the industrial age, playing with a society in turmoil where no one knows the rules. Edmund is charismatic and Edgar's uncertainty brings him through terror into self-invention, and they do some really fun things with the lighting and choreography.

#king lear #edmund #edgar #bob jones university

[wutbju]

Avoid "all lives matter" rhetoric at all costs.

#Bob Jones University #Black Lives Matter #Assertive Spirituality #All Lives Matter #Klandamentalism

[aspiringbelle]

Okay. Who thought Tumblr would be a good place to run ads for a right-wing BJU grad running for SC Superintendent of Education??!

#politics #south carolina #bob jones university

[phillipmedhurst]

Revealed Religion : Benjamin West. 082 of 100 Bible images

082 Peter’s first Sermon (Peter preaching at Pentecost)

Peter’s first Sermon (Peter preaching at Pentecost). Painted 1785, signed 1795. Oil on canvas. 148 X 116 ins. War Memorial Chapel, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.

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#apostle #Benjamin West #Bible #Bob Jones University #Holy Spirit #kerygma #Pentecost #Phillip Medhurst #Revealed Religion #Saint Peter #sermon #tongues

[survivingbjupodcast]

🎧Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms. 🎙️

#cult podcast #podcast #surviving bju #surviving bju podcast #bju #bob jones university

[wutbju]

By their fruit ye shall know them....

Adam Morgan, BJU Class of 2011, is proving that he is NOT safe. Consorting with Matt Gaetz of all people? Really??

You can say no, Adam.

Far-right conservative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Congressman, is coming to Greenville to help campaign against his colleague William Timmons.   Gaetz will join South Carolina state representative and Fourth Congressional District Candidate Adam Morgan to keynote a campaign rally on April 23 at the Greenville Marriott.   “I’m looking forward to welcoming Congressman Gaetz to South Carolina,” said Morgan in a press release. “Matt is a strong leader in Congress and I’m thankful to have his support, as well as several other conservative members of Congress, who are committed to consistently fighting for conservative ideals and winning.”  Doors will open at 6 p.m. for the rally beginning at 6:30. Tickets required for entrance can be found here.  “Congress needs more America First warriors willing to fight the establishment, the uniparty and the special interests,” said Congressman Gaetz. “Adam Morgan is that warrior who will join me to fight the DC swamp to take back our country and restore our conservative values. I enthusiastically endorse his candidacy for South Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District and am excited to have him fighting with me soon for the country we love.”  Morgan, an extreme conservative who chairs the SC Freedom Caucus, recently garnered national attention on the social media app X, formerly known as Twitter, when he posted a video of him on the South Carolina House Floor claiming that dark money groups were behind the pressure for him to vote for an economic development.  “My constituents told me to vote no on the $1.3 billion VW project ($400 million of which is taxpayer cash). But the swamp wants me to ignore those ‘back home,’” Morgan posted to X, which received 1.3 million views.  Gaetz responded to Morgan’s post, saying “Inject this into my veins.” Gaetz has also openly spoken about Timmons on X, saying “We need better Republicans than this.”   Still, earlier this year, Timmons garnered former President Donald Trump’s endorsement for a second time.  "Congressman William Timmons is a terrific advocate for the people of South Carolina's 4th Congressional District," Trump said in a press release. A captain in the Air National Guard, he fights hard to secure our border, strengthen our military, support our veterans, grow the economy, defend our Second Amendment, and hold Joe Biden and the Radical Left Accountable. An original member of my South Carolina Leadership Team, Congressman William Timmons has my complete and total endorsement."  The primary is June 11 and early voting begins Tuesday, May 28. Whoever secures the primary will face off against Democrat Kathryn Harvey. 

#Bob Jones University #Adam Morgan #Patch the Pirate #Matt Gaetz #BJUisNOTSafe #SC GOP

[wutbju]

The BJU Alumni Association asked alumni to “brainstorm with us about events or enhancements to current events that would help attract you to the campus.”

They always ask. They never really want to know though.

#Bob Jones University #Archive #Ephemera #2011 #BJu Alumni Association

[wutbju]

I personally haven't gotten over this. I've had this tweet in my drafts folder since June.

BJU has closed its archive.

This is why John Matzko has turned the General alumni group into another photo archive.

So now? If you want something from BJU's past, you can ask Matzko (good luck). Or you can email WutBJU (at) gmail (dot) com.

#Bob Jones University #John Matzko #Archives

[wutbju]

Something's brewing, folks.

Usually the BJU Board of Trustees meets at the end of the Spring Semester. That way they are present for the Commencement events and all the flashy Artist Series events.

Last year (2023) the Board meeting was on Thursday and Friday, April 20-21. And that was a monumental meeting, remember. That's when Pettit's resignation was final.

They met again on May 16 to name Alan Benson as the interim.

But this year? They've moved it up a whole month into March. And it's during Holy Week!

Meeting on Holy Wednesday and Maundy Thursday? Something tells me that they will not be foot washing and reading John 14 to each other.

Sure, sure, sure. They are going to name the next president. But the Pettit resignation was in many ways more monumental and more ground-shaking than this announcement.

What else are they going to decide next week?

#Bob Jones University #Board of Trustees #Make BJU Bob Again #Holy Week #Calendar

[wutbju]

BREAKING NEWS: Bob Jones University employees were instructed that they have until the beginning of the 2024-25 school year to leave churches in the Presbyterian Church of America denomination and the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians.

Information is pouring in. Faculty are mad. Many, many faculty have found solace in churches that are outside BJU's maw. Churches that are not pastored by BJU graduates and churches that preach the Good News.

First Presbyterian, for instance, is part of the ECO and has a boatload of BJU graduates on staff. But you see, that denomination ordains women, so it's outside BJU's standard.

But the PCA is the more conservative of those two. I attend a PCA church, btw. I see BJU employees attending there all the time. They are in the choir and our orchestra. I'm glad they are hearing the Good News like I am.

Even Steve Pettit attended a PCA church when he was here. He attended Second Presbyterian.

And good ol' Sam Horn was consorting with the PCAers too.

But no more. No more non-BJU-approved churches.

The Black List is back, folks.

#Bob Jones University #Klandamentalism #Presbyterian Church of America #ECO

[wutbju]

CW: careless talk about postpartum depression

I've been avoiding this introductory story from Dr. Dionne because it's so horrifying. I'll just quote the whole thing.

Karen is a 30 year old woman who grew up in our church and has parents who were missionaries in Venezuela when she grew up. She has three children and one is less than two months old. She and her husband have been married for 10 years, and she professed Christ when she was a girl, and her husband also grew up in our church, and he just got a job as a police officer, and he's working the graveyard shift. And after her second baby, she suffered with postpartum depression. Now her baby's crying every night, and her husband has gone during the night, and he has to sleep during the day, and she's not getting enough. She is having angry outbursts, and she's very unhappy, so she went to her doctor and was given antidepressants for postpartum depression, and she hoped it would help. But she only took it for three days and seemed to get worse, so she stopped taking the medicine. Her doctor told her if she could not tolerate the medication, she would need to get counseling. And she doubted if it would work for her. She felt like she had known God her whole life, and she doubted that God loved her which is very common when people are depressed.

Picture the scene. This mother has no sleep and a newborn. She has the flood of postpartum hormones -- a wallop for everyone -- but this is in the depression territory. Her husband is absent.

Her medical doctor (at least according to the story) is basically doing nothing. She's not taking the meds -- probably because she's been told at their church that meds are wrong.

But Dionne goes on. Guess what the BJU-trained counselor suggests. Yup -- MEMORY VERSES! But lo and behold, what does she discover??!??!?

So my wife Kelly started meeting with her, and she met with her every week and she started off by having her memorize scripture. And as Kelly was getting to know her, she learned about some sin Karen had committed with her husband when they before they got married. And they had never asked her, repented of this to each other or repented before God.

"Some sin."

Dionne never says it, but he's attributing allll the problems to that "sin." It's probably sexual relations with her now-husband before they were married. At least, that's the way Dionne sets it up.

He goes on:

And this was a very important time when her husband came to counseling with her, and they apologized to each other and they confessed to God their sin. From this, she learned that she actually had to seek forgiveness from some other people in her life. She would have lots of anger, and as they spent more time counseling, it became clear that she had some wrong expectations about her life. What was the problem? Well, she wanted life to be comfortable and easy, and it wasn't. As she was being counseled, Kelly taught her how important her thoughts are, the thoughts she deserved an easy and a fun life. And to be had to be replaced with right expectations about. So whenever anything went wrong in her life, she would doubt God and become angry with him. She learned that God was using the hard things for her good, showing her her desperate need for him. Anybody learning that right now suffering is so good for me.

Everybody stop.

Is anyone taking care of the baby during the day so that Dad and Mom can sleep? Is anyone taking care of this family? Is anyone talking to the Dad and explaining, "You need a different shift." Is anyone offering the Dad a different job?

These are real things that can be done that are not "memorizing verses" or plumbing the depths of a 20-something's life.

Where are the older moms who can come in to help? The grandmas? The aunts?

Medication is important too. But hello!!?? You don't need a license to be a decent human being.

Dionne never actually says what happened to the family and specifically the mom. He just tells the story in such a way that you think it's all tidy after they confessed to "sin."

#Bob Jones University #CORE2024 #BJUBC24 #Bible Conference #Seminary Conference #Jim Berg #BJUisNOTSafe #Dan Dionne #Stuart Scott #Brian Hand #COVID

[wutbju]

There's a presumption in higher ed that if you want to (or need to) slash and burn your institution, do it while there's an interim at the helm. That way he can light the place on fire with no repercussions.

I went to go see if they had any job posting for a new School of Fine Arts Dean. They don't. But go look at the same search I saw.

Now you can see nearly every department is hiring -- even Music. Here are two depts in the School of Fine Arts that are hiring.

See which organization is the umbrella organization doing the hiring? The one you would expect: BJU, Inc. That's what BJU is legally called now. That's the nonprofit arm. EIN #57-1088101.

That's what you'd expect to see.

But keep going. Look at the Communication Studies department's posting and the Health Sciences posting:

BJU Education Group is the for-profit arm of the Bob Jones University. That's the Press!

Is this a signal of things to come? Is Bob Jones University reorganizing so that either Health Sciences and Communication Studies are going under the Press? Or is it the Graduate schools that are going for profit?

Is this a clue??

#BOb Jones University #Reorganization #Right sizing #Appropriate change #the end is near #Financial Crisis #Darren Lawson #Gary Weier #57-1088101 #bju Inc #BJUEG

[wutbju]

So with the calculated Grand Total Enrollment -- when I counted each student reported to the SCCHE based on what they were studying -- the number is much lower.

Dramatically so.

#Bob Jones University #Enrollment #Financial Crisis #Charts and Graphs #IPEDS #SCCHE

[wutbju]

Did you ever get a gem like this from the Dean of Women?

January 30, 1992

Dear Camille:

It has been brought to my attention that some students feel that you have consistently worn short skirts. I know you will want to make sure that everything you wear does come to the bottom of the knee, especially since you will be going out on an ensemble. I realize the ensemble outfits are probably taken care of by the University, but as you may know, it is important that students not feel faculty and staff members do not adhere to the dress regulations that are required of them. No doubt this is an oversight on your part, and I know we can count on your cooperation.

If you want to discuss this with me, feel free to contact me.

#Bob Jones University #Archive #Ephemera #Luena Barker #1992 #Dean of Women #Short Skirts #Ensemble

[wutbju]

Also last semester, BJU's new shiny spokesman Renton Rathbun chose the clickbaitiest headline. It's peak BOJOsploitation.

He called it "Hate More. Kill Better."

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know he's talking about the mortification of sin. But it takes a long time for him to get to that point. And he flippantly states that "the Church is losing the skill of hating and killing."

This is the guy who started his sermon about gender binaries talking about sexual assault. And this is the guy who talked the students' neighbors as Sonderkommandos. And this is the guy who said that he's "punching them in the face." And the guy who said that men "pressure women into degrading themselves."

And he's saying it in the same pulpit that Dan Olinger "joked" about "killing" a student.

BJU loves to glorify violence. They love to exploit people from the pulpit. They love BOJOsploitation.

And fundy pastors love it too.

They are all as bad as the Reefer Madness producers.

Mark and avoid.

Here's Rathbun's whole thing. Note that he's equating pastors with holiness, and if you disagree with that, you need to learn more about "killing."

We live in a world where 62% of American pastors have a syncretistic worldview. It was pastors who enabled the success of the Revoice movement, which is responsible for grooming young men and women into embracing a gay identity within Christianity. And currently, there is a dwindling confidence in pastors’ spiritual credibility.

Now more than ever, the American church is in desperate need of pastors who are ready to address a simple fact: the Church has come to despise holiness. Yes, the Church at large seems fond of God’s love and goodness, but holiness leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.

Many fear pursuing holiness will make us unrelatable, robotic, and judgy. Yet, the most sobering statement of 1 John 2:1–6 is that the first and primary exhortation is to stop sinning. Yes, if we do sin, we have an Advocate. But John wrote his epistle principally so that his people “may not sin.”

When we do speak of practical matters of holiness, we often explain our way into retaining at least some sin. When 1 Timothy 2:12 forbids women “to exercise authority over a man” in the church, we roll out our feminists to help us see that “authority” is misunderstood by conservatives. When Romans 1:26–27 speaks of the sin of homosexuality and its “vile affections,” we roll out our same-sex-attracted pastors to help us see that only the act of sodomy is a sin, not the attraction part.

The Church is losing the skill of hating and killing. We do not hate sin as God does, so we do not kill it. We might condemn parts of it—but hating and killing it goes too far. Yet, God says He hates the work of those who sin (Ps. 101:3; 119:104). He hates abominations (Prov. 6:16–19; Jer. 44:4). He hates the planning of evil (Zach. 8:17). And God has instructed us to hate evil (Ps. 97:10), even abhor it (Rom. 12:9).

Our worldview is confused, so our compassion has become confused. In attempting to show compassion for those who are tangled up in sin, we have begun showing compassion for sin itself. As my pastor once stated, “When we forget the sinfulness of sin and God’s own hatred for it, we forget the cost of sin for the Son of God.”

How can we kill what we have become accustomed to? How can we assassinate that which we have been pining after? We need a biblical worldview of holiness. The puritan John Owen confronts us, “Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you!”

Pastors, do not give up. Do not give in. Do not go gently into the night. Fight for holiness in your own heart (1 Pet. 3:15) and in the hearts of your congregations (1 Pet. 1:15–16). Fight because you love God. Fight because you love your people. Turn your people into killers of sin, or it will be killing them.

Look around, Renton. There's a lot of hating. There's a lot of killing. And exploitative to say so cavalierly, "The Church is losing the skill of hating and killing."

#Bob Jones University #BOJsploitation #Reefer Madness #Exploitation Genre #Christploitation #Fundyploitation #John R. Rice #Renton Rathbun #BJUChapel #Mark Driscoll #Dan Olinger

[wutbju]

Bible Conference in 1968 was strange:

The annual Spring Bible Conference is one of the outstanding features of the year at Bob Jones University. Running for eight days, the conference brings to the campus outstanding, orthodox Bible teachers, pastors and evangelists. All regular academic work is suspended for the conference which takes the place of a spring vacation.

This year's conference was considered one of the school's best. More off-campus guests were present than for any other event in the school's history.

Services were held in the 3,000-seat Rodeheaver Auditorium, and overflow crowds watched the services via closed-circuit television in the 1,000-seat Concert Center. For most of the sessions it was necessary to use a third auditorium the War Memorial Chapel, which has a seating capacity of about 700+.

Guest speakers at the conference included Dr. Robert T. Ketcham, national consultant (retired), General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, Chicago, Ill.; Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley, pastor of Raven hill Free Presbyterian Church, Belfast, Ireland, moderator of Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, editor of "The Revivalist," "Protestant Telegraph." Also, Dr. Charles S. Poling, pastor of the Church of All Christian Faiths, Phoenix, Ariz.; Dr. Glen Schunk of Greenville, evangelist; and Dr. H. C. Slade, pastor of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto, Canada.

The next Bible Conference will be March 30-April 7, 1968. Among the speakers scheduled are Dr. G. Archer Weniger, pastor of the Foothill Boulevard Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif; Dr. Noel Smith, editor of the Baptist Bible Tribune," Springfield, Mo.; Dr. Bob Wells, pastor of the Central Baptist Church of Anaheim, Calif.; Rev. John Balyo, pastor of the Cedar Hill Baptist Church of Cleveland Heights, Ohio; and John Stormer, author of' "None Dare Call It Treason."

John Stormer was an anti-communist speaker.

And then a WBJU story:

WBJU, the student-manned carrier-current radio station, is now in its second year of operation. Located in the radio television wing of the Fine Arts Building, the fully equipped radio station is designed to be heard in the eight student dormitories.

Though staffed entirely by radio students, the station's operations are supervised by Robert Pratt, chairman of the division of speech and head of the department of radio and television, and other members of the radio-television faculty.

According to Mr. Pratt, the carrier-current station serves as a "laboratory training unit for students who have dedicated themselves to using broadcasting as a Christian ministry." He said that the station also endeavors to supplement the listening interests of the student body.

The university grants the bachelor of arts degree in radio and television and the bachelor of science degree in broadcast engineering. WBJU is in addition to the commercial stations operated by Bob Jones University -- WMUU and  WMUU-FM in Greenville and WAVO and WAVO-FM in the Atlanta, Ga., area.

#Bob Jones University #1967 #Greenville News #YeahTHATGreenville #Advertisement #Anniversary #Bible Conference #BJUBC1968 #WBJU #WAVO #WMUU