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Pray for Baylor. The Baptists are calling each other flat-earthers and liberal parasites, and the school they call Jerusalem on the Brazos is caught in the middle.
Criswell grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where his father was a devotee of Norris, the fiery fundamentalist pastor of First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, and his mother was a devotee of Truett, the statesman pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas.