The Baptist Standard won four awards from the Evangelical Press Association, including first place “Higher Goals” awards for an editorial and a news series.
The Standard also received an award of merit for overall excellence in the denominational (digital) category and recognition in the EPA “Cause of the Year” category for an article about mental health.
Editor Eric Black won first place recognition for his Dec. 21, 2021, editorial, “Even Bob Dylan knows you can’t serve two masters.” The article focused on the attention given to former President Donald Trump during his Dec. 19 appearance at a worship service at First Baptist Church in Dallas.
Judges called the editorial “an engaging read that leverages current events and national issues in building an effective argument.”
“This piece takes one national event and uses it to make a powerful and effective examination of some challenging and important issues,” the judges stated.
Managing Editor Ken Camp won first place for his news series about religious persecution in Myanmar. Coverage included information based on correspondence with a Baptist physician in Myanmar a few weeks after the military coup occurred and an interview with the brother of a Baptist pastor who was killed by the military.
Read the articles here, here, here, here and here.
Judges commented the articles “bring to other believers far away the names and situations of believers in need.”
In presenting the award of merit for overall excellence in the denominational (digital) category, judges called the Baptist Standard “a fine publication that exudes trustworthy and carefully considered content.”
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The Evangelical Press Association identified mental health as its “Cause of the Year,” and judges presented a fifth place award to Jessie Higgins for her article in the “Voices” column, “Justice for mental illness is personal and systemic.” The article was part of the Baptist Standard’s “Justice looks like …” series.
“Great job in providing what readers need in an interesting way,” a judge wrote. “This is such a good article, I personal felt challenged as I read it. I wanted to send copies to many people. Great work.”
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