EX-ROANOKE PASTOR TO EDIT STATE BAPTIST NEWSPAPER

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, February 16, 1992                   TAG: 9202160138
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: CODY LOWE
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EX-ROANOKE PASTOR TO EDIT STATE BAPTIST NEWSPAPER
A former Roanoke man has been named editor of the Religious Herald, the newspaper of the Baptist General Association of Virginia.
Michael J. Clingenpeel, 41, was reared in Roanoke and ordained at Grandin Court Baptist Church. He was youth pastor at North Roanoke Baptist for a while.
From 1975 through 1983, Clingenpeel served pastorates in Michigan. Since 1983, he's been pastor of Franklin Baptist Church in southeastern Virginia.
Clingenpeel succeeds Julian H. Pentecost, who will retire at the end of April after 22 years as editor.
The newspaper is an independent organ, though it receives support from the state association of Southern Baptists.
In recent years, Pentecost has been an outspoken opponent on the Herald's editorial pages of the fundamentalist power shift in the national convention.
The 164-year-old Religious Herald is one of the oldest state denominational newspapers.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB