Associated Baptist Press presented its inaugural Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism to the long-time executive editor of the independent news service who was forced by health issues to step down last year.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will stress community at the organization's 20th General Assembly June 24-25, 2010, in Charlotte, N.C.

An elder statesman who led three Southern Baptist Convention entities for a total of 40 years says the denomination's North American Mission Board is an obsolete bureaucracy that will likely have a diminished role or disappear altogether in the 21st century.