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Perspectives from Task Force Members

Spring 2012

Interview: Bryant Wright, Jimmy Draper Discuss Name Change Proposal

During the recent SBC Executive Committee meeting, SBC LIFE was able to sit down for a few minutes with Bryant Wright, president of the SBC, and Jimmy Draper, chairman of the task force Wright appointed to advise him on the advisability of proposing a name change for the SBC to the Convention. SBC LIFE also solicited and received email replies to its questions.

February 21, 2012

Fentress & Patterson: Descriptor would benefit African Americans, ethnic groups, non-Southerners

The following remarks by Maryland pastor Ken Fentress and seminary president Paige Patterson were part of the Feb. 20 report to the SBC Executive Committee by a task force that studied the possibility of a name change of the Southern Baptist Convention and proposed the option of Southern Baptists also calling themselves "Great Commission Baptists."

February 21, 2012

TASK FORCE'S REPORT: Transcript

Jimmy Draper, chairman of the task force that studied the question of changing the name of the Southern Baptist Convention, presented the following report to the SBC Executive Committee during its Monday night (Feb. 20) meeting. The task force was named by SBC President Bryant Wright last September.

September 23, 2011

Patterson, Mohler discuss name change