The editor of North Carolina Baptists’ newspaper has agreed to resign his post to prevent a threatened motion to defund the publication from being made at the Nov. 8–10 Baptist State Convention of North Carolina annual meeting.
Norman Jameson offered to resign his post at the Biblical Recorder prior to a regularly scheduled board meeting in Charlotte on Oct. 21.
Jameson, editor of the Recorder for just over three years, called his resignation “not required, but necessary.”
“Nobody asked me to resign,” he said. “Nobody threatened to fire me.”
Sandy Beck, director of missions in the Carolina Baptist Association, recently wrote convention leaders warning that if Jameson were not removed as editor, there would be a motion from the floor of the convention to amend the Cooperative Program (CP) unified budget to defund the Recorder.
CP funding accounts for about 45 percent of the Biblical Recorder’s current budget of $726,500.
Jameson, a Baptist journalist since 1977, said he was confident until just hours before his board meeting that the Recorder would survive such a challenge if it were to materialize.
But with no such confidence expressed by the board, he offered to resign. (ABP)
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