SBC seminary board members to meet with colleague who advocates 'private prayer language'
Allie Martin
OneNewsNow.com
March 13, 2007

A controversy involving an outspoken board member of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary could soon be resolved. Board members at the Southern Baptist seminary will meet with Pastor Dwight McKissic, who says it is wrong to prohibit a private prayer language.
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The controversy began last summer, when Dr. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, and then a new board member at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS), preached a chapel sermon advocating use of a private prayer language, a practice sometimes referred to as speaking or praying "in tongues." Last fall, the SWBTS board approved a resolution stating that neither the seminary board, staff nor faculty would endorse that practice. the rest