PINEVILLE, La. — Kelly Boggs, an Oregon pastor and Baptist Press columnist, has been selected as editor of the Baptist Message, newsjournal of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. Boggs, 45, elected by a unanimous vote by the paper’s trustees, succeeds Lynn Clayton, who will retire at the end of the year after more than 27 years as editor.
Boggs has been a weekly columnist for Baptist Press, the news service of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), since 2001 and served as chairman of the Northwest Baptist Convention’s ethics and religious liberty committee from 2001 until earlier this year. He was a member of the steering committee of the Defense of Marriage Coalition of Oregon in 2004 and media relations director for a 2000 initiative to curtail the promotion of homosexuality in Oregon public schools, handling media interviews and radio and TV debates.
He has led the Portland-area Valley Baptist Church in McMinnville since 1999. Boggs served on the SBC’s resolutions committee in 2004 and committee on nominations in 2003. Boggs earned a master of divinity degree in 1994 from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a 1985 graduate of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.
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