Small business stunned by abrupt termination of chapel window art at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary:
Southern Baptist seminary turmoil leaves stained glass artists picking up the pieces
"The project, launched in 2013, was to take a dozen years or more and could have brought the Youngs, who run a small studio out of their Fort Worth home, as much as $2 million in income. 'In our line of work, a job like that — oh, my God, it just doesn’t happen,' Don Young said....The windows, more than 60 in all, were to honor titans of the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention."
"The stained glass project was conceived and organized six years ago by Dorothy Patterson, the wife of Paige Patterson....'My dream,' she told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in December 2013, 'was to portray the 20-year history of the conservative resurgence of the Southern Baptist church.'"
“It was Dorothy’s pet,” [Debora Young] said....'Dorothy wanted it done, so everyone just sort of went along with it.'"
Don Young said no one from Southwestern told him or Debora that the windows were coming down. They learned about it after the fact from an online news story. 'We were taken totally by surprise. No one from there has contacted us about the removal'"
"'When people ask me if I’m sorry about what happened, I tell them, ‘Honestly, I’m sorry about the money.’ We have no complaints. We did really well for these past few years. We made enough to pay off our house 10 years early. But we were counting on working on this for several years more. That was going to be our retirement.'"
Debora & Don Young
Southern Baptist seminary turmoil leaves stained glass artists picking up the pieces
"The project, launched in 2013, was to take a dozen years or more and could have brought the Youngs, who run a small studio out of their Fort Worth home, as much as $2 million in income. 'In our line of work, a job like that — oh, my God, it just doesn’t happen,' Don Young said....The windows, more than 60 in all, were to honor titans of the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention."
"The stained glass project was conceived and organized six years ago by Dorothy Patterson, the wife of Paige Patterson....'My dream,' she told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in December 2013, 'was to portray the 20-year history of the conservative resurgence of the Southern Baptist church.'"
“It was Dorothy’s pet,” [Debora Young] said....'Dorothy wanted it done, so everyone just sort of went along with it.'"
Don Young said no one from Southwestern told him or Debora that the windows were coming down. They learned about it after the fact from an online news story. 'We were taken totally by surprise. No one from there has contacted us about the removal'"
"'When people ask me if I’m sorry about what happened, I tell them, ‘Honestly, I’m sorry about the money.’ We have no complaints. We did really well for these past few years. We made enough to pay off our house 10 years early. But we were counting on working on this for several years more. That was going to be our retirement.'"
Debora & Don Young
