Wow. When I wrote about hearing of the death of Roy Honeycutt last week, I spoke of Duke McCall, the man Honeycutt replaced as President in 1978 when McCall had health problems (heart related), as if he were (as I had assumed) already dead. But the article below mentions him, now 90, and he’s been the president of the Baptist World Alliance since then, a group ironically left by the Southern Baptist Convention in the past year.

I hope to hook up with the CBFers somewhere along the way, some day. I think they could use me now, but that will have to wait until the technology operations are such that they need someone like me. As for now, I’m happy where I am.

Associated Baptist Press – News

While Morris Chapman says the fact retired Southern Baptist Convention leaders are now raising money for the Baptist World Alliance from SBC churches is “astounding and regrettable,” one of his predecessors as SBC chief executive, Duke McCall, says Chapman and others opened the door for those solicitations by defunding BWA.
“You should have told the SBC Executive Committee that severing connections with the BWA would leave us free to ask Southern Baptist churches and individuals to replace the funds withheld,” McCall, one of the most influential Southern Baptists in history, told Chapman, president of the SBC Executive Committee, in an open letter Dec. 21.
McCall, former president of BWA and former president of two SBC seminaries, convened a meeting of retired SBC leaders Dec. 4 in Atlanta to find ways to replace the money — until recently $425,000 a year — the Southern Baptist Convention used to provide BWA, an international umbrella group of 211 Baptist bodies.
The SBC was a founding member of the alliance in 1905 and its largest member and fund-provider. But conservative Southern Baptist leaders who led the defunding effort say BWA harbors theological liberalism, a charge denied by BWA and many of its member groups worldwide.