Mealey's (April 13, 2021, 1:18 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 25 agreed to extend the time for the former executive director of a Baptist state convention to respond to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Inc. (NAMB) after the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reinstated the former director’s defamation lawsuit; NAMB asks the high court to address what it calls a “frequently recurring question expressly left open in” Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC concerning church autonomy decisions....