Rachel Brentner, a Lawrenceville, Va., kindergarten teacher, developed a passion for Belize and the people of that Central American nation on two mission trips with the Baptist Student Union at Pennsylvania State University. When she looked for a connecting organization…
ANALYSIS: Gore documentary film exposes diversity in evangelical opinion on environment
A recent movie by Al Gore has helped reveal a diversity of opinion among Christians when it comes to the environment. While in recent years some evangelical and conservative groups have begun to acknowledge the case for environmental concern, the…
Retired Lynchburg College leader named interim president of BC
A retired Christian educator with more than 14 years of experience as a college president became interim president of Bluefield College on Aug. 1. Charles O. Warren Jr., a native of Bluefield, W. Va., and longtime president of Lynchburg College…
International student workers connect at the Internet Café
Each year there are an estimated 5,000 international students who come to Virginia Beach to work during the summer. These students come from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and China. They are usually A-B students, who are studying in the sciences as…
Retired Lynchburg College leader named interim president of BC
A retired Christian educator with more than 14 years of experience as a college president became interim president of Bluefield College on Aug. 1. Charles O. Warren Jr., a native of Bluefield, W. Va., and longtime president of Lynchburg College…
Muslim refugees say goodbye to Lebanese Baptist shelters
BEIRUT, Lebanon (ABP) — Hundreds of Lebanese Muslims who had taken refuge in Lebanese Baptist institutions said good-bye to their hosts Aug. 17. Meanwhile, Lebanese Christian leaders continued to care for refugees still in Beirut. As a cease-fire took hold…
The Church as a Community of Peace
The carnage in the Middle East has moved me toward the breaking point on the entire business of war. I am genuinely wondering whether as a Christian moral thinker, it is my place to offer support for war, even in…
Churches transformed by Katrina help rebuild New Orleans — house by house
Robert Marus/ABP Steven Meriwether, pastor of St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, places prefabricated flooring in a flooded home that volunteers from the church and others have worked to gut and renovate. NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — Hurricane Katrina…
Are secular newspapers ready for Christian cartoons?
DALLAS (ABP) — Christian cartoons are nothing new. They're everywhere from gospel tracts to Christian magazines and newsletters. But a Christian cartoon as a nationally syndicated feature in secular newspapers? That's almost unprecedented. Despite the fact cartoonist Kevin Frank's upcoming…
Legendary liberal W.W. Finlator fought segregation, poverty, war
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — One of the most outspoken and legendary liberals in Southern Baptist life has died. William Wallace Finlator “thought the German theologian Karl Barth was right that a preacher should preach with a Bible in one hand…
Bush picks low-profile leader to head faith-based office
WASHINGTON (ABP) — President Bush has chosen a low-profile think-tank leader to head the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Bush announced Aug. 3 that he had tapped Jay Hein, currently president of the conservative Sagamore Institute for…
Alabama area, one year after storm, still relying on hope, volunteers
Robert Marus/ABP Amy Walker (seated) tearfully expresses thanks to community-service groups at a media-studded ceremony where she received the keys to a new mobile home provided through a collaboration between religious, commercial and government organizations. BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (ABP)…