Ken Starr: Absentee Baptist

One of the Native American tribes in Oklahoma is the "Absentee Shawnee" tribe.   They were absent from the Northwest Indian wars that followed the revolutionary war.

Among the Baptist tribes there are members in every church who could be called "Absentee Baptists."  No one can remember the last time they saw them at church.

Most  "Absentee Baptists" at least blessed the church with their presence when they joined the church.  Ken Starr, however, appears to have begun a new trend.  When elected as President of Baylor University he promised to join a Baptist church.  Today Ethics Daily is reporting that Starr fulfilled that promise in abstentia.

It has long been apparent that Starr was a member of the "absentee" tribe of church members.  Starr's previous church membership was in McLean Bible Church in Washington, D.C.  For the past six years he has been living in California.  He just never got around to moving his church membership.

I distinctly remember Ken Hall and members of the Board of Regents at Baylor using superlatives to describe the fine Christian character and witness of the man they were making President of the University. 

I'm sure many of the students will find his example worthy of emulation.