Critical Blog Entries Prompt Board Member's Suspension

By Ian Wilhelm

Should a charity board member write a blog? That question is being raised after the trustees of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board suspended one of its members for writing critical comments about the organization on his personal blog.

The Richmond, Va., group, which oversees the Southern Baptist Convention's missionary and relief work abroad, temporarily suspended a trustee, Wade Burleson, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, in Enid, Okla., for violating the trustees'