Our family cannot decide whether cremation is biblically acceptable. Can you provide some biblical reference points or standards? Cremation is an increasingly popular alternative to burial. Since it isn’t a traditional Christian form, believers can struggle with its biblical acceptability….
British Baptist minister jailed in Virginia on child molestation charges
FAIRFAX, Va. (ABP) — A British Baptist minister is being held in a Virginia jail on charges of child molestation. Robert Dando, senior minister of Worcester Park Baptist Church in Surrey, United Kingdom, was arrested July 24 in Oakton, Va. He is…
Evangelicals condemn church’s plan to burn Quran on 9/11 anniversary
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The National Association of Evangelicals has condemned plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., announced its plans…
Is the Tea Party unbiblical?
WASHINGTON (RNS) — When conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck warned church-goers to “run as fast as you can” if their pastors preach about “social justice,” was he also encouraging them to run from the Bible? That’s what some progressive Christian leaders…
Baptist teenagers among protesters arrested at school board’s meeting
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — Three youth and one adult from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., were among six people arrested Aug. 10 for disrupting a meeting of the Wake County School Board in protest of the school district's…
Man pleads guilty to beating two elderly women at Ill. church
ANNA, Ill. (ABP) — A man charged with beating and robbing two elderly women at a small-town Baptist church last fall pleaded guilty Aug. 10 to two counts of attempted murder. Willis Bates Willis Bates, 46, of Anna, Ill., was…
BGCT eliminates 13 staff positions, reduces some to part-time
DALLAS (ABP) — Six Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board employees are losing their jobs, seven unfilled posts are being eliminated and a dozen positions are being reduced from full-time to part-time due to the state convention’s current financial…
EDITORIAL: World Congress 2010! A foretaste of glory
In this issue of the Herald, we have tried to accurately report what took place at the Baptist World Congress in Honolulu, July 27 to August 1. And, with the exceptional help of other New Voice* partners, our managing editor,…
HERITAGE: Summer lessons
Hatcher Memorial’s old church house sits along busy Dumbarton Road in the Lakeside community of Richmond. It is dwarfed by the grand Georgian sanctuary which replaced it in 1955. It is a little worn at the heels; but just as…
VITAL SIGNS: Upheaval
That’s one of the nicer things we call moving. Our household’s recent move has been a journey into disorganization, disorientation and general discord. A genuine necessary evil. More than once during recent weeks, we vowed to never move again —…
OUT LOUD
“If Sharron Angle feels that way, I’m the last person in the world to ever criticize her for thinking that she’s called of God to run against me. If she believes that, that’s something that’s between her and her God.”…
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Four stages of evangelism
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary describes evangelism as “the winning or revival of personal commitment to Christ.” The original word in Greek means “announcing the Good News.” As Christians we are committed to “announcing the Good News” in the hope and…