Dear Zachary: Ten years ago your grandfather wrote you a letter soon after your birth. You probably have never read that letter, but I trust your parents put it with some keepsakes and someday you may want to read it….
BTSR offers online classes
RICHMOND—Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond's School of Christian Ministry has announced its January 2008 online courses and spring conferences. For more information or to register, call 1-888-339-2877 (toll free) or email scminfo@btsr. edu. Online Congregational Leadership Certificate Program courses will…
Out Loud
“Being president—that'll be a heck of a lot easier job than getting all the Baptists to agree on everything,” Huckabee, a Baptist minister, said at a Dec. 6 political event in Greensboro, N.C., Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News..” Mike Huckabee The Republican…
GodTube offers Christian alternative to YouTube
DALLAS (RNS)—Chris Wyatt and the Internet have something going. In the late '90s, the young television producer helped start Communities.com, the world's first social networking website. The site exploded into the Internet's largest pre-MySpace network. Now, less than a decade…
Objections to lectionary
Your Dec. 6 article, “Lectionary helps some Baptist preachers feed their flocks a ‘balanced diet' ” generated a host of questions as I read it. I have preached for 60 years (off and on, lately) and have never used the…
Christian website offers YouTube alternative for wary Baptists
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ABP)—Move over, YouTube. Baptists have video cameras. And they're using them, now that they have a “safe” place to share their videos online, said Bill Nix, CEO and president of Axletree Media. Axletree's E-zekiel, a website builder and…
Use care with initials
The Herald needs to exercise more care in what it prints. The phrase “Stand and deliver” leaped up off the page of the Dec. 6 front page. I thought it was used by British highwaymen robbing horse drawn coaches. The…
Two traditions inspire faithful Boy Scouts
MIDDLESEX, N.J. (RNS)—As Boy Scout Troop 114 cooked lunch during the recent Highland Games near their tents in a Middlesex County, N.J., park, a senior Scout summoned his fellow members. The Scouts huddled around tree trunks in Thompson Park and…
Setting up obstacles
I see in the Dec. 6 issue of the Religious Herald that the subject of drinking alcohol is still a problem for weak brethren. At the age of 12 I signed the pledge that the Women's Christian Temperance Union promoted….
Tech professor named most inspiring person
BLACKSBURG (RNS)—The Holocaust survivor who helped save students' lives before dying during a shooting spree at Virginia Tech last April was named by Beliefnet.com as its Most Inspiring Person of the Year. Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, was one of 32…
Jezebel
Surely, you didn't mean to publish author Lesley Hazelton's comments about her book, Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen. Hazelton is quoted as saying, “She was a magnificent, proud, powerful queen of Israel.” Jezebel may have been…
Does ‘Compass’ point kids in the wrong direction?
NEW YORK (RNS)—The holiday season means it's time for another Hollywood wintry blockbuster with a cast of talking animals, witches and an earnest child to point the way to truth and justice. But some Christians who applauded the Christian allegory…