#sam dawson

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(l to r) Odie Payne, Little Johnny Jones, Willie Mabon, Big Bill Sam, Sam Dawson

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But even while Crockett insists that BJU fights "woke indoctrination" so that young people in mental distress can be helped, he accidentally tells the truth.

He mentions a very sad event at Miracle Hill's location across Pleasantburg with a BJU '24 graduate. Kirby Murdaugh's stabbing was covered on local news. Ms. Murdaugh spoke in Chapel and intends to get an MA in Biblical Counseling.

And Kirby's story is a reminder again of how much we need a school like BJU in 2024. Satan wants to steal and kill and destroy, but we have a mission worth fighting for: to see students' transformation through Christ-like formation, through a world class education without the woke indoctrination that's being pressed in on every side.

He says it elsewhere too.

We are fighting for the lives of our students in a world of woke indoctrination.

So BJU saves lives from Satan's woke indoctrination.

Notice. It's not Jesus that's doing any saving.

It's BJU.

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Sam Dawson introduced the BJU State of the University 2024.

He was unequivocal about having athletes and "pep rallies" for BJU's Chapel:

I want to take this opportunity as, on behalf of the board, to tell you that the Board fully supports Dr. Crockett. And with the team here on campus, we are assured, as he's moved into his six months of presidency, that he is the man to lead Bob Jones University forward that God would have him here. We are fully assured of him at this time. We especially commend him for his leadership this semester in making vibrant changes to Chapel, to leading through the financial challenges, and with the team that he has of students and faculty and staff, administration and many others who have with strong communication and resilience, led this campus through the damage caused by Hurricane Helene.

So. Was ousting Pettit worth it? Really?

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So we will hear something today at 11am EDT. You can tune in here.

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And then, thankfully, it becomes laughable again.

This year, our slogan is shaping heads, hearts, and backbones, so representing learn heads, love hearts, lead backbones. But shaping heads, hearts and backbones. For Christ, we shape heads through that world class education; hearts, through the loving mentoring of our faculty and our staff here at BJU; and backbones, through the biblical worldview that's incorporated into every single class.

That's dumb.

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Trigger Warning: Suicide mentioned.

This moment was also chilling.

Please remember that BJU is not safe -- especially for anyone in distress.

There's a lot of proof that BJU does not treat those in mental distress in any safe way.

But nonetheless, this is what Josh Crockett talked about in his State of the University:

The summer, within two days, I talked to two dads who had sons who were suicidal. And the one dad who had been in ministry his whole life at a conservative sister institution, he said, "we found out one day that my son had already planned the parking garage that he was going to jump off of. He parked his car, he'd walked up to the wall. He was going to jump from. A friend, texted him providentially and invited him to go get sushi." He said, "one of our family members got home and found that each of us had a suicide note that our son had had written for each of our family members. And so we reached out to him. We were able to," he said, "I stayed up with him that entire night just Googling for help, and he said as I was Googling, I found an interview you had done with Shelly Hamilton at your church on this exact same thing. And he he said it, it resonated with me." He said, "yesterday when you were preaching at my church, my son, who's right now a student at a public university." After church he came up to me and, he said, "would they allow someone like me to come to BJU?" And I said, "of course we would!" This this is the kind of life saving work that we are doing here at BJU, our student life, our student counselors. The next day, another dad that I was speaking to said his son was at BJU and texted him. He was feeling suicidal. The father discovered his son had been sexually assaulted in the workplace, was questioning his sexuality. We are fighting for the lives of our students in a world of woke indoctrination.

"Woke Indoctrination" is Josh Crockett's boogey man. Fundamentalists always have to have one. And this is his.

And you can see in Crockett's mind, "woke indoctrination" is the culprit for this mental distress.

BJU is NOT safe.

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And this is startling.

We all know the story of Bob Wood's arrival at BJU, yes? It wasn't exactly on the up-and-up, and Wood used the Gospel Fellowship Association to launder some the Brown Transport CEO's semi-precious jewels worth $320,756.

But here Josh Crockett waxes poetic about Bob Wood:

And I remember one of the first funerals that I did at Morningside was Dr. Bob Wood's funeral, and I remember Dr. Bob [Jones] getting up and saying, "People would sometimes ask me, is Dr. Bob Wood your yes-man. And he said, of course not. If I had a yes man, he would be redundant. He had a whole different set of skills that I needed." And so, I believe in many ways we need another Dr. Wood here at BJU. I've asked Nathan to fulfill that role.

Nathan Crockett, puppy mill "millionaire," is Josh Crockett's Bob Wood?