STAFF CHANGES • Bill Nieporte, to Patterson Avenue Church, Richmond, as pastor, effective July 1. • Donald G. Proctor, to Clover Bottom Church, Nathalie, as full-time pastor. • Jerry Wayne Stanfield, to Childrey Church, Nathalie, as pastor. • Peyton Fitzgerald…
Bluefield trustees consider new academic program, possible return of football
BLUEFIELD — Trustees of Bluefield College approved a new academic major for adult students and continued their study of the feasibility of football, further collaboration on a proposed new student and community center, and plans for the creation of the…
Hundreds gather in Waco to honor late Baylor president Reynolds
WACO, Texas (ABP) — More than 1,300 family and friends flooded First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, May 30, to bid farewell to Herb Reynolds, the 11th president of Baylor University. Reynolds died of an apparent heart attack May 25,…
Virginia Baptists to “Blitz Build” house for Lynchburg family
LYNCHBURG — “Safety, privacy, happiness.” That's how Tianne Tyler describes the dream of home ownership. Currently, she and her 2-year-old daughter live in a small apartment that has no front window and a leaky ceiling, in a neighborhood where safety…
Study says American news media overplays religious conservatives
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A new study by two Washington-based groups asserts that the mainstream media, derided by some as liberally biased, actually overemphasizes the importance of religious conservatives. Media Matters for America and Faith in Public Life released the report,…
Thanks for care
The people of Northstar Church in Blacksburg would like to publicly thank the people who came to our town as a part of the disaster relief temporary child care unit the week following the tragedy at Virginia Tech. This fine…
Pastors challenged to link faith, society in ‘celebration of preaching’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Prophecy is not about gazing into the future. It's about passion for a better world right now, speakers at a celebration of preaching stressed in Nashville, Tenn. While many think of the prophets of the Bible…
Serious concern
A very serious concern continues in my own heart and mind since the horrendous happening at Virginia Tech. Where are those of you at the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, the Religious Herald, at the school, and/or throughout the Baptist populace…
N.C. pastor nominated as CBF moderator-elect
ATLANTA (ABP) — North Carolina pastor Jack Glasgow has been nominated to serve as the next moderator-elect of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Pastor of Zebulon Baptist Church in Zebulon, N.C., Glasgow is the former moderator of CBF of North Carolina…
Pennington-Russell set to make history as pastor of large Decatur church
DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — A female pastor who broke the “stained-glass ceiling” in Texas Baptist life is expected to move to a historic church near Atlanta, making it by far the largest Southern Baptist church led by a woman. A…
Opinion: The duty to subordinate that which divides us?
A few nights ago, just at bedtime, my husband and I heard some kind of owl — at least we assumed it was an owl — announcing its presence among the oaks in our backyard. A little research on the…
N.C. Baptist newspaper set to elect PR director Jameson as editor
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — Norman Jameson has been recommended as the new editor of the Biblical Recorder, the North Carolina Baptist state newspaper. Jameson, the executive leader for public relations for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, met with…