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...Sophomore Eda Karesin and junior Evan Faverman closed out the top three in the women’s javelin event with 44.17 meter and 37.46 meter throws, respectively.Junior Brittan Smith had a strong sixth-place finish in the 100-meter dash, completing the event in 12.25 seconds. Junior Favia Merritt placed fourth in the 200 meter dash with a time of 25.39, while senior Danielle Mirabal’s 25.51 time was good enough for sixth in the event.Junior Derek Jones completed the men’s 400-meter dash in 48.53 to wrap up the fourth spot, while freshman...
...Thus, Merritt, 25, appears to have made an end-run around some of his Convention's usual power brokers, including its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which traditionally has a near-lock on issues of national policy. Asked if it was common for a rump group like Merritt's to collect this kind of firepower, Ethics Commission Vice President Barrett Duke hesitates: "I don't know. It's unusual. I'm sure it's existed, but I can't recall...
Duke, whose office Merritt consulted as he was drafting the declaration, has refused to sign. ("The offer's still on the table," says Merritt cheerfully.) While Merritt's declaration supports government action on global warming, Duke says the delegates at last summer's yearly SBC meeting specifically struck language requesting that the government further investigate global warming and try to do more about it. Thus, Duke insists, Merritt's declaration was "at cross-purposes with the express will of a Southern Baptists-passed resolution and we couldn't support...
...James Dobson and Gary Bauer, tried to oust Richard Cizik, the head lobbyist of the National Association of Evangelicals, who has fueled attempts to rally conservative Christians to the environmental cause; but Cizik's organization, while never fully supporting his mission, refused to drop him. Cizik is pleased with Merritt's declaration. "That resolution last summer was really cold water on any Southern Baptist who dared to speak out on the issues," he says. "I'm enough of a realist to know that this issue moves forward in increments. And this is not even a small increment. This...
...step in a new direction of leadership in the SBC, the leaders of whose ultra-conservative "revolution" in the 1970s are now getting long in the tooth. Says James Merritt, Jonathan's father, "That certainly wasn't the motivation behind my son's doing it. But any institution that's going to survive, there has to be a passing of the baton to a new and younger generation, or else it will...