Items of Interest March 26, 2012 Issue

Southern Baptist Convention puts brakes on name change

Adelle M. Banks

“Southern Baptists to stick (mostly) with same name” Religion News Service. February 21, 2012.

A task force is recommending that the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] maintain its official name but give members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination the option of calling themselves “Great Commission Baptists.”

The recommendation on Monday (February 20) determined that changing the Southern Baptist Convention name was fraught with legal and logistical problems.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson, a traditionalist and a member of the task force, had long favored a name change but said it is likely too difficult to pull off.

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