“We are called to be all things to all men . . . poor testimony . . . laughingstock at SBL . . . the first will be last . . . build bridges, not walls . . .” Dr. Rollins was walking a fine line, and he knew it. He was using some of the standard phrases he had picked up from some of his friends at the more . . . open conferences that he went to, but only the phrases that he did not believe the board members would recognize. They would react to liberal jargon, but not, he hoped, to the liberal bent decked out in the very latest jargon. He thought he saw empathy in the eyes of more than a few of
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