Novelist John Grisham to Speak at Covenant Celebration

Associated Baptist Press is reporting that best-selling novelist John Grisham has been scheduled to speak at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta. Here's a quote:

The 53-year-old Grisham, a lifelong Baptist, has taught Sunday school to young couples and 4-year-olds and regularly goes with fellow church members on mission-service trips.

In announcing the addition of Grisham to the Covenant lineup Dec. 20, program co-chair Jimmy Allen described the author as "a Baptist churchman, not only in regular worship but also in active service. The subthemes of his fiction reveal his understanding of the plight of the poor, his commitment to seek justice in our criminal system, his concerns for environment, and his descriptions of the challenge to reach across the racial lines that divide us."