Here I am reading Jim White's editorial regarding the SBC meeting in Greensboro and reflecting on my own experience at the convention. I am one of those people Jim mentioned in his opening paragraph who thinks the 2006 convention is…
ANOTHER VIEW: Best plans are useless without God’s creativity
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet, Act 1, Scene V Shakespeare should have been a missiologist. Hamlet's cautionary words apply to most human endeavors, particularly mission outreach. Cross-cultural…
Rick Warren invited to speak in North Korea
North Korean officials have invited best-selling author and Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren to preach to at least 15,000 people in the communist country, a spokesperson from Warren's Saddleback Church confirmed July 5. The spokesperson told Associated Baptist Press that…
Correction
In the July 5 story “Baptist pastor, author Rick Warren invited to speak in North Korea,” please note the change that Warren is expected to speak during the summer of 2007. The exact itinerary for Warren's trip is still undetermined,…
Ethicists weigh in on court’s decision to protect Guantanamo detainees
WASHINGTON (ABP) — While a prominent Southern Baptist leader says a recent Supreme Court decision weakens the United States' ability to combat terrorists, some other Christian ethicists say even those accused of terrorism deserve to have their rights upheld through…
Church & People News for June 8, 2006
Staff Changes Jim Graham, to Wallers Church, Partlow, as interim pastor. Susan Harvey, to Mount Ararat Church, Stafford, as children's minister. Connie Scruggs, to Rivermont Church, Danville, as part-time minister to children. Retirements Frank W. Casper Sr., pastor of Calvary…
Church & People News for June 15, 2006
Staff Changes Jim Booth, to Staples Mill Road Church, Glen Allen, as pastor, effective June 25. Kevin Schrum, to Smithland Church, Heathsville, as full-time pastor. Juan Garcia, to First Church, Newport News, as Hispanic pastor. Mike Jones, to Enon Church,…
Church & People News for June 22, 2006
Staff Changes Robert “Bob” Albritton, to Vienna Church, Vienna, as senior pastor. Terry Clark, to New Chapel Church, Rustburg, as pastor. Mathew Brown, to Branch's Church, Richmond, as pastor. Mary Mann, to Tomahawk Church, Midlothian, as part-time associate pastor for…
Church & People News for June 29, 2006
Church & People News for July 13, 2006
Staff Changes Stephen Cook, to First Church, Danville, as pastor, effective Aug. 20. Richard W. Croxton, resigning as senior pastor of Braddock Church, Alexandria, to accept the senior pastorate of Providence Church, Hayes. Bill Ellis, resigning as pastor of Oak…
Fellowship provides clean water at Ukrainian foster home
ATLANTA (ABP) — Thanks to a $6,000 gift from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Ukrainian street children will have clean water from a new well. Village of Hope, which sits on a 17-acre tract of land half an hour from Kiev,…
Endowed gift establishes ABP Puckett Internship
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — For decades, R. Gene Puckett was a leader in Baptist journalism — as editor of North Carolina's Biblical Recorder for 16 years and earlier as Baptist state paper editor in Maryland and Ohio and managing editor…