My 15-year-old son has taken to introducing me as a “retired pastor.” It’s hard to shake loose of that title for me, too. It’s probably because being a pastor is more of an identity than a job, more a personality…
REFLECTIONS FROM NEW YORK: Imagining new places
Moving into new places presents a unique challenge to imagine and re-imagine our past lives in relation to the present locations in which we find ourselves. Walter Rauschenbusch, the late 19th-century and early 20th-century pastor, church historian and social gospel…
Thin silver band reminds teens to make healthy choices, say organizers of abstinence movement
SPARTA, Va. — Over 90 teenagers in the Caroline County, Va., area are wearing a thin silver band. Someday they hope it will be replaced by a wedding ring. In the meantime the silver band serves as a reminder of…
CBF of North Carolina to host second Fresh Expressions event
RALEIGH — Fresh Expressions has scheduled a Vision Day in Raleigh Aug. 16, the second to be hosted by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina. The event serves as an introduction to Fresh Expressions, a movement which aims to…
Helping Christians understand Islam is goal of Beckett Center, says its founder
RICHMOND — There’s a rickshaw parked at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center, typical of those in South Asia. Don’t look for it out front in one of the reserved parking spots. It’s on display inside in the museum of the…
Team from Virginia church to perform at Baptist global youth event
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A team from Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., will be among a variety of music, dance and dramatic performers during the 16th Baptist Youth World Conference, to be held July 17-21 in Singapore. Alfred Street…
Books, films more than a passing fad
By Jim White Americans love sinking their teeth into stories about vampires, and some fans live for the latest tales of the undead. All this leaves some Christians wondering what to make of the current fascination with vampires, zombies, werewolves…
America exporting new religion, Australian theologian insists
By Jim White Fascination with zombies and vampire reflects a global New Spirituality America shapes through pop culture, said theologian Ross Clifford, author of The Cross is not Enough: Living as Witnesses to the Resurrection. Clifford, principal of Morling College…
N.C. disaster response units at work in Oklahoma; Va., D.C. Baptists monitoring developments
RALEIGH — Baptist disaster response teams in North Carolina headed to Oklahoma May 23 in the wake of the massive tornado there, while Virginia and District of Columbia teams remained on alert May 30. The May 20 storm pulverized Moore,…