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• Robert Parham, moderate Baptist ethics leader, dies

  by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, March 07, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Robert Parham, a staff member of the SBC's former Christian Life Commission who began an ethics organization for Baptist moderates, died March 5 in Nashville. He was 63.

  Parham was described as "a critic of the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention" in a Religion News Service obituary March 6. RNS reported that Parham had been diagnosed with amyloidosis, a rare disease that affects the body's organs. But he had remained active as executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, which he founded in 1991 in Nashville, RNS noted. Read More