Dr. Karen Swallow-Prior's Resigning from Liberty University

She's headed to the Southern Baptist Convention's Southeastern Seminary in North Carolina:

Karen Swallow Prior to join SEBTS faculty

SEBTS President Danny Akin:

"I am delighted to have Karen join our faculty....Our students will be blessed to sit under her instruction. She is a wonderful addition to the outstanding faculty of Southeastern."

Scott Pace, the Johnny Hunt chair of biblical preaching:

"[She] is a welcomed addition to our already stellar faculty at The College of Southeastern. As a conservative evangelical and cultural ambassador, Karen brings a unique combination of skills and expertise that will help train our students"

Karen Swallow-Prior:

"I'm looking forward to being able to join with Southeastern in its exciting mission of sending students, future pastors and future scholars across the globe according to God's calling on their lives and the Great Commission"


Congratulations!

 

Liberty University on Twitter

"We are so grateful for Professor Karen Swallow Prior and her 21 years of Training Champions for Christ. And we wish her many years of fruitful ministry, teaching the students at @SEBTS."

Jerry Falwell on Twitter

"You will be greatly missed, Karen....You always made LU proud"

 

Swallow-Prior explains she'd become frustrated by the lack of freedom at Liberty:

Longtime Liberty University professor to leave school over concerns about academic independence

"[She] said her criticism of Trump has caused tensions on Liberty’s campus and has contributed to her decision to leave the school."

"Falwell declined to comment."

"[She decided to] leave the school next year because of mounting frustrations"

"'I need...freedom....Southeastern...is a better fit for me now'.....Southeastern will allow her to devote more time to writing and speaking — something, she said, that largely has been denied to her at Liberty in the last two years."

"Scott Lamb, Liberty’s senior vice president for communications and public engagement, declined to discuss Prior’s resignation, calling it a personnel matter."