What Baptist Churches, that drop their name, can learn from Pete Postlethwaite
Early in his career, the late English character actor Pete Postlethwaite (pronounced "POSS-ul-thwait" was advised to adopt a new surname for his acting work by his first agent and by peers who quipped that his name "would never be put up in lights outside theatres because they couldn't afford the electricity". Postlethwaite rejected the advice: "It's who I am. It's my mother and father, my whole family. It's where everything I am comes from. I couldn't imagine living my life with another name."
If he understood this about his family name and heritage how much more should some Baptist pastor understand it about a much more important family and heritage. The problem of course is you never really knew what it means to be a Baptist. No heritage, no history, so no problem dropping the name.
