ATLANTA (ABP) — A Baptist state newspaper editor has questioned whether the report of a Calvinism study committee implies that some high-profile Southern Baptist leaders believe that infants who die before reaching the so-called “age of accountability” are destined for…
LEADERSHIP LINK: Make your budget presentation something to remember
By mid-September, most churches have completed their 2014 budgets, or are close to doing so. Weeks, or in some cases months, of analysis and planning have produced a financial plan for spending that will guide ministries and missions in the…
Woman follows her parents into ministry, despite ups and downs of life as preacher’s kid
(ABP) — Now and then, a preacher's kid follows a parent into the ministry. But when the moment of decision came for Leah Anderson Reed, she decided to follow both her father and mother into ordination. Reed, 27, was ordained…
OPINION: What is your role in worship?
What is worship? Just type the word “worship” into Google and a number of definitions appear. Many Baptist congregations understand worship to be the place the church gathers and the gospel is proclaimed for the salvation of the lost. This…
Former WMUV president Ann Brown to be nominated as BGAV first vice president
RICHMOND — Ann Brown, a Gretna, Va., laywoman widely involved in Virginia Baptist life, will be nominated for first vice president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia — a position whose incumbent for almost a decade and a half…
HERITAGE: Working the short row
Charles A. Moore, pastor of Warfield Baptist Church in Brunswick County of Southside Virginia, is a long-timer in pastoral ministry who admits, “Like they say in the country, I am working the short row now.” On Sept. 15, Warfield Baptist…
OPINION: Who do we root for?
The news and images coming out of Egypt seem to get bleaker every time the news comes in. The revolution that began in Tahrir Square two years ago with such promise and hope for positives has devolved into a civil…
TRENDING: Attention strategies
In her turn-of-the-century work with Apple and Microsoft, tech veteran Linda Stone was on the front edge of developing new “attention strategies” for living and working in a hyper-connected, always-on world. With the state of “continuous partial attention” now our…
REVIEW: John Lewis’s “March” is a great story of a true American hero
Congressman John Lewis is at the center of a new graphic novel, March, the first of three volumes which focus on Lewis’s work in the civil rights movement. Using the occasion of President Obama’s first inauguration, March tells the beginnings…
VITAL SIGNS: Are we flying our churches into the ground?
Spatial disorientation is the condition in which an aircraft pilot's perception of direction does not agree with reality. It typically results from flying into poor weather conditions with low or no visibility. Under these conditions the pilot may be deprived…
OPINION: Implication or assertion
To me, this week’s news has been fodder for just about full-on depression. Reports of uncertainty and confusion surrounding Syria alternate with images of Miley Cyrus’s antics at the Video Music Awards, messing with my head a little bit —…
OPINION: Comic-Con, world’s largest pop culture gathering, offers church lesson in engaging culture
Comic-Con International is the largest gathering of pop culture in the world. It is held in San Diego and has a more than 40-year history of providing information and insight into the world of comics, movies, television, video gaming and…