Southern Baptist Music School Folds

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is folding its decades-old music school into another school because of the sluggish economy and decreasing popularity with students. Seminary President Albert Mohler says the recession forced a sooner-than-planned merger of the school after the seminary laid off 35 non-faculty workers earlier this year. But, Mohler also says the trend of churches moving to guitars and praise choruses has eroded the school's entrants over several years. The seminary will continue to offer some music degrees, but it plans to cut music faculty through attrition. [The Associated Press]