Texas pastor Dwight McKissic and his fellow trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have apparently decided to make peace, despite their previous public disagreements.
In a March 27 statement, trustee chairman Van McClain said board leaders and McKissic had “jointly agreed to put past issues behind us.”
The announcement came two weeks after trustee leaders at the school and McKissic issued a joint statement saying they had agreed to discuss their differences privately and would decline any further news comment on the subject. They also said a threat of removing McKissic from the board had been taken off the table.
McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, had feuded for months with his fellow trustees over board openness and school policies on “private prayer language,” a form of speaking in tongues.