WACO, Texas — Students and faculty of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Seminary gathered May 6 to pray and voice their concerns over the reassignment of Brad Creed, the seminary’s dean and one of its founding professors.
Creed, a professor of Christian history, left his administrative post effective June 1, Larry Brumley, associate vice president for communications, told Baptist Press May 8. Creed served as dean of Truett Seminary since January 1996 and was one of the first professors hired before the seminary opened in the fall of 1994.
Brumley said Creed’s departure as dean was amicable and had been planned for at least a year. However, a report in the Waco Tribune Herald painted a different picture of Creed’s reassignment, noting that Creed “will be relieved of his duties effective June 1.”
Brumley called the newspaper account a mischaracterization. “People use different terms,” Brumley said. “But if he was fired, he wouldn’t be working at the university.” Creed will take a six-month sabbatical and return to teach Christian history in January 2001, Brumley said.
Approximately 40 students and faculty gathered at the First Baptist Church, Waco, to pray for Creed and the seminary.
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