SOUTHERN BAPTISTS: Trustees clearly are no longer trustworthy.

With the exception of NAMB Board of Trustees recent behavior, I've not seen a lot to of trustee action in the past ten years to earn a lot of my respect.

The Tennessee Baptist Convention will hold a rare special convention May 9 to deal with a growing rift with Baptist-affiliated Belmont University.

Belmont wants to elect its own trustees, who have been appointed by the convention for more than 50 years. But convention leaders warned March 28 they may seek the dismissal of the university's current trustees -- presumably to elect a slate that will keep the Nashville school under convention control.

In a closed-door, special meeting March 28, the convention's Executive Board voted to call a rare special session of the convention -- which normally meets only once a year -- for May 9 at Two Rivers Baptist Church in Nashville.

The highway of SBC life is littered with the carcasses of SBC schools whose BOT's have violated their fiduciary responsibility to the millions of lay people who paid for their existence. Let's hope Belmont's carcass isn't soon seen on the beautiful landscape of God's one and only Tennessee.

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