Dilday retiring from Truett Seminary post

WACO, Texas — Russell Dilday, whose 1994 firing as president of Southwestern Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, proved a watershed in a long running battle between theological factions in the Southern Baptist Convention, is retiring after six years as a professor at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Waco, Texas.
Dilday, 69, will retire in August, Baylor officials announced March 17. Dilday, a distinguished professor of homiletics and special assistant to the president, also served as Truett’s interim dean, when Robert Sloan, the seminary’s original dean, became president of Baylor.