ATLANTA (ABP) — Some of the Southern Baptist Convention's most prominent bloggers reacted positively to a summit they held with former President Jimmy Carter May 17 in Atlanta. Carter and the leaders discussed building a broad range of Baptist support…
Virginia Baptist Foundation awards grants totaling $185,000 to ministry partners
RICHMOND — The Virginia Baptist Foundation Inc. has awarded grants totaling $185,000 to eight Virginia Baptist ministry partners, according to Ronald C. Hall, president and CEO of the Foundation. The following recipients were awarded grants by the Foundation's board of…
Bible Society building bombed in Gaza incident
GAZA CITY, Palestine (ABP) — In the latest violence among warring Palestinian factions, a bomb severely damaged the Palestinian Bible Society building April 15 in Gaza City. The building, located in the city center, housed the Teacher's Bookshop, Gaza's only…
EDITORIAL: Learning to lead
More than 1,400 churches are a part of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. In a conversation with Lyle Schaller a couple of years ago, he helped put this in perspective. “The BGAV is larger than most denominations in the…
News About Virginia Baptists and their Ministries for May 17, 2007
STAFF CHANGES � Timothy K. Norman, to Glen Allen Church, Glen Allen, as pastor. � Bruce Queen, to Walnut Hill Church, Petersburg, as pastor. � Belmont Church, Roanoke, has called John Fox as co-pastor for congregational ministries and David Burgess…
SECOND OPINION: Why some evangelicals aren’t green
Evangelicals are waking up to our responsibility to the environment. Evangelical initiatives on the environment are growing in cultural impact, but they continue to garner stout resistance. Too often, politics and capitalism get in the way of a clear evangelical…
Carter meets with SBC bloggers to discuss 2008 convocation
ATLANTA (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter met with several well-known Southern Baptist bloggers May 17 in Atlanta to solicit support for an unprecedented gathering of Baptists in North America. Carter, perhaps the world's most prominent Baptist layman, invited the…
With a song in his heart
Sixteen Candles was a popular song for the teen and college set in 1959 and was among the repertoire of a singing group at the University of Richmond known as The Jeters. (Readers of this column and UR alums recognize…
European conservatives: Poland pivotal in battle against ‘anti-family’ forces
WARSAW (ABP) — Poland is one of the few European countries to maintain traditionalist Catholic stances in the international debate over social issues like abortion, gay marriage and embryonic stem-cell research. That's one reason why leaders of the World Congress…
RIGHT OR WRONG?
I'm worried about my elderly mother driving a car, but I hate to take away her independence by taking away her keys. The Bible says to honor your father and mother, and I don't want her to think I've lost…
Treasury withdraws Cuba fine against Alliance of Baptists
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Treasury Department officials have dropped the threat of a $34,000 fine against the Alliance of Baptists, according to a letter the group's attorney received May 17. The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, threatened the…
Churches pressure travel industry on sex trafficking
WASHINGTON (RNS)—Faith groups are using their collective influence and financial wherewithal to press the travel and hospitality industry to take greater steps to protect children from sex trafficking. Increasing numbers of church groups and other religious bodies say it's not…