On March 6, at the age of64, only 5 months after assuming the presidency ofBiblical Theological Seminary, Dr. G. Aiken Taylor who was for 24 year s the editor of The Presbyterian Journal died from an apparent heart attack. In the March 21 Journal, the current interim editor Joel Belz reflects on his significant career. (Born and reared in Brazil by missionary parents, theologically trained at Columbia Theological Seminary, and with a PH.D. degree from Duke University.) Dr. Taylor became the Journal editor in 1959. Unlike his predecessors, Dr. Nelson Bell (father-in-law to Billy Graham) and Dr. Dendy, who had sought the purifying of the Southern Presbyterian Church rather than secession, Dr. Taylor, supported by a growing majority of the Journal board, came to see and explain week by week, why a new church was necessary and what its character should be. He thus had an influential part in the 1973 founding and growth of the Presbyterian Church in America, and also, with a vision wider than his own denomination, an indispensible role in the beginning of the National Presbyterian and Reformed Fellowship and in the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council. Thus the Lord has abruptly taken from our Reformed and Presbyterian family one of our most influential leaders. Let’s thank the Lord for what he was used to accomplish.

The January/February Southern Baptist Journal notes that the ordination of women is now one of the biggest problems facing the Southern Baptist Convention. It is causing serious division among these conservative Baptists. (March 19, 1984 Christian News).