[1][3] Fields returned to Louisiana College to give the keynote address on Founders' Day in 1976.
[2][3][7] Fields worked for the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee from 1959 to 1987, where he started as the secretary and retired as the vice president for public relations.
[7] Fields supported the freedom of the press, arguing, "We have to be honest, transparent, trustworthy.
Maybe that includes telling them some things Baptists wouldn't want them to know, but they depend on their sources shooting straight with them.
[2][6] He served on the boards of the Council on Religion and International Affairs as well as the Nashville chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
[7] Fields taught Sunday school at the First Baptist Church in Nashville for two decades.