A sampling of Cobb-area headlines for Wednesday, Sept. 21.
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Says SBC President Bryant Wright of Johnson Ferry: "There are not a lot of folks in New York City interested in going to a Southern Baptist church."
Rev. Bryant Wright wants to take the "Southern" out of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Johnson Ferry Baptist Church pastor, who recently began a second year as the president of the SBC, has created a study group that will examine the possibility a name change, something the tradition-bound denomination has resisted numerous times over the years. But according to a story in The Tennessean on Tuesday, Wright said the geographical moniker doesn't make sense in a church with a growing nationwide presence. “There are not a lot of folks in New York City interested in going to a Southern Baptist church,” he said. “Or in Cheyenne, Wyoming, or Boise, Idaho.” The SBC is the second-largest religious body in the United States with 45,000 …
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Cobb EMC ruling, Cobb schools Facebook policy, Romney visit top headlines.
1. Cobb EMC loses in court -- The Georgia Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Monday that the leaders of Cobb Electric Membership Corporation violated a settlement agreement by amending the cooperative’s bylaws to allow voting by proxy. Before the ruling, East Cobb Patch Local Voices blogger Tom Barksdale, an advocate for Cobb EMC reform, wrote about those continuing efforts. 2. Cobb school district changes Facebook policy -- Cobb citizens can no longer comment on the district's Facebook page, except on items posted by school system personnel, “due to recent offensive and/or inappropriate posts.” East Cobb Patch Local Voices blogger Kathryn Patterson, who's been writing up a storm about school issues, has started her own Facebook page in protest, …
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Johnson Ferry pastor presides over meeting brimming with cultural issues.
Johnson Ferry Baptist Church pastor Bryant Wright will serve another term as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. It's a denomination that remains immersed in cultural as well as moral issues, both from within its ranks and beyond. In his message at Tuesday's SBC annual meeting in Phoenix, Wright urged his fellow Baptists to reject materialism and hedonism. The SBC, following the urging of Wright and other leadership, elected its first African-American to high church office. Fred Luter, head pastor of a New Orleans church, is the SBC's new vice president, the No. 2 official behind Wright. The SBC, formed before the Civil War in part on a slavery-related matter, now has 3,400 black denominations. It did not act until 1999 to…
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