DALLAS — A Baptist Press report claiming to have broken a story that articles of incorporation have been filed to reserve the name “Baptist Convention of the Americas” is inaccurate, according to the editor of the Baptist Standard.
A March 1 article in Baptist Press, official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, suggests the filing of these articles of incorporation last fall had gone previously unreported.
However, the Texas Baptist newspaper reported the filing in an article written by editor Marv Knox and published in the Nov. 24, 1999, issue. Associated Baptist Press carried the story nationwide the same week.
Knox’s article repeated comments made by Baylor University Chancellor Herbert Reynolds, who was speaking to a group of “mainstream” leaders from state Baptist conventions gathered in Oklahoma City.
In that speech, Reynolds noted he had filed articles of incorporation to secure the name “Baptist Convention of the Americas.” Knox included that fact in the body of the story.
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