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Southern Seminary's Missional Drift
When Christian institutions experience missional drift like Southern Seminary did in the latter half of the 20th century, their leaders are faced with difficult dilemmas. So what is a godly leader to do? Now your story at Southern is very unique in that there's very little precedent for liberal institutions returning to Confessionalism. And so it really was a way of neutralizing over time a denominational elite that was more liberal. The elite got out voted. In almost every situation an elite can get out voted if the people figure out how to outvote the elite.