WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Obama's first proposed budget signals a dramatic shift in prioritizing domestic poverty, centrist and liberal Christian leaders said in a teleconference with reporters March 2. Nonetheless, some expressed concerns that portions of the proposal did not…
Justices decline to upend decision barring N.J. coach from prayers
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A New Jersey high-school coach will not be able to participate in his football team’s prayers after the Supreme Court’s March 2 refusal to review a lower court’s decision. Opponents of government-sanctioned school prayers praised the justices’…
EDITORIAL: Pewboy celebrates Lent (and Ash Wednesday)
Altarego: Hey, Pewboy, look at the mess you’re making. Pewboy: I know, but it’s got to be done. I don’t know why calendars have to designate a day to clean out our fireplaces, but there it is plain as day:…
VIRGINIA BRIEFS
BTSR plans 20th anniversary banquet. To launch its 20th anniversary celebration, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond will sponsor a banquet on Thursday, March 12 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The banquet, to be held in Lingle Hall on the BTSR campus, is…
Center for Baptist Heritage plans film festival to highlight story
The Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies will sponsor the Key Film Festival, designed to allow Baptists an opportunity to share the Baptist story through video. The Festival is in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Baptists as an expression…
Top 100 churches in gifts to Virginia Cooperative Missions in 2008 listed
First Baptist Church in Alexandria led churches affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia last year in contributions to Virginia Cooperative Missions. Rounding out the top 10 churches in total Virginia CM gifts were Bon Air Baptist Church in…
Top 100 churches in total Cooperative Missions giving in 2008 listed
First Baptist Church in Alexandria led churches affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia last year in total contributions to Cooperative Missions. Rounding out the top 10 churches in total CM gifts were Bon Air Baptist Church in Richmond,…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • John Snow, to Zoar Church, Deltaville, as pastor, effective March 1. • Gregory W. Wissinger, to Beaver Dam Church, Troy, as pastor, effective March 1. • Thomas S. Larson, to Fox Hill Road Church, Hampton, as pastor….
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Call it what God calls it
Recent issues of the Religious Herald have reported on abortion, homosexuals, evolution, Muslims, Obama and church/state walls and the controversies that surround them. Consider: Abortion: God calls it murder; we call it “choice.” Homosexuality: God calls it an abomination; we…
New Poverty Forum aims to keep focus on the poor
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A bipartisan group of 18 Christian leaders has developed a host of policy recommendations on poverty reduction that they hope will shape the actions of the Obama administration and Congress. The effort, co-chaired by evangelical activist Jim…
National Baptists to choose between two candidates for convention president
(RNS) — Henry J. Lyons, the former president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, who was imprisoned on charges of fraud a decade ago, is one of two candidates running to be the convention’s next president this September. The other…
Anti-gay pastor told not to come to United Kingdom
LONDON (RNS) — Britain has barred an American anti-gay Christian preacher and his daughter from entering the country, to stop them from spreading what the government described as “extremism and hatred.” Fred Phelps, who has gained notoriety in the United…