By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor AMORY, Miss. (LBM) – Recently released materials filed and referenced by attorneys for Will McRaney in his lawsuit against the North American Mission Board, which is alleged to have illegally interfered in McRaney’s employment as executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware and other potential work opportunities, appear to show that leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention’s domestic missions entity took actions which harmed McRaney’s ability to earn a living. In an Oct. 26, 2022, filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, McRaney’s attorneys excerpted statements from two affidavits (both notarized in October 2018) and the minutes of a February 2015 meeting of the NAMB trustee executive committee to make their case. The NAMB minutes referred to steps it took to end cooperation with the BCMD -- an action that NAMB described as a “disciplinal process.” According to the record of those proceedings, which took place at the Green Valley Ranch, a resort spa and casino in Las Vegas, NAMB President Kevin Ezell told 12 executive committee members and 15 staff members who were present that “a one year notice for termination” was … [Read more...]