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A Private Matter

Forced resignation of Southern Baptist leader prompts calls for transparency.

Trevin Wax | posted 7/13/2009 02:24PM

Southern Baptist leaders face growing controversy over the forced resignation of former Executive Committee vice president Clark Logan on July 1, just one week after the denomination's 2009 annual convention ...

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Kathy

Posted: July 21, 2009 8:15 PM

There can be two sides to a story like this. Sometimes the reasons for ending a relationship are too nuanced for the broader group to understand. One example from personal experience: an employee of a religious organization whose unwise financial decision had lost him the trust of the leadership--but without clear evidence of wrongdoing. He had to go, but to make the situation public would have unfairly burdened his opportunities for employment elsewhere and too easily could have led to needless division within the membership. Leaders can be unfair, so they need to be held accountable--but there are usually organizational or denominational procedures for that. All too often, IME the group wants to know all the details because of a general attitude of distrust or, let's face it, a desire to gossip.

David MacEachern

Posted: July 16, 2009 10:54 AM


If in fact no illegal, immoral activity had taken place, Chapman's got a problem on his hands. What I believe we're witnessing at the top level of our convention is this..some folks "gravy train" is grinding to a halt!

Gene Scarborough

Posted: July 15, 2009 8:05 PM


"And the beat goes on...." Sounds like the same clandestine response to many clandestine situations where moderate leaders were fired with no real explaination... maybe his kiss to the posterior of the leader was not sincere enough--ya think???

Frank

Posted: July 15, 2009 10:56 AM


Haha, some transparency- hmmm, let's take a guess- was his fling with a man or a woman?

revrogers

Posted: July 14, 2009 12:29 PM

It will be interesting to see what the taskforce recommends to the SBC. While the denomination is made up of churches with 200 or less members (@ 60% of the churches, I think) not one pastor of one of those churches was named to the taskforce to help resurge the denomination made up primarily of those size churches. Will the taskforce be about resurging the Great Commission among the SBC, or a bureaucracy shuffle in the current administrative structures?

andrew777

Posted: July 14, 2009 4:37 AM


Very sad, why can't we be united and transparent as Christ's disciples? Andrew (Rome, Italy)

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