Dear Jimmy, Since its been a spell since I've written, and since your Uncle Orley ain't around to distract me, I figured I'd drop you a line or two. Orley has gone with some of his farmer friends over to…
Rejected
In the May 4 issue of the Herald there was an insert, Caring Times, from the Virginia Baptist Children's Homes and Family Services which I enjoyed very much. I am glad these homes exist for the children, both Baptist and…
CBF participants focus on future at 16th gathering
With a call to minister to “a world in need,” the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship began its 16th year by appointing 19 mission workers, welcoming a new missions coordinator, adopting a $17-million budget and contributing $32,801 to a special human rights…
Time will tell
Let me be among the first to congratulate you on the straight-talk editorial, “Time Will Tell.” in the June 22 issue of the Herald. You cited four significant lessons learned from the Southern Baptist Convention held in Greensboro: Don't mess…
Alito tips balance upholding Kansas’ death-penalty law
WASHINGTON (ABP) — New Justice Samuel Alito cast the deciding fifth vote in a June 26 Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of Kansas' death-penalty law. The high court divided closely — and acrimoniously — in the case. On a…
Former Illinois Baptist exec Maurice Swinford dies
HERRIN, Ill. (ABP) – Maurice Swinford, who led the Illinois Baptist State Association for five years until his retirement in 1993, died Saturday. He was 78. An Illinois native born in Charleston, Swinford began working for the statewide association as…
Peaceful CBF meeting defines mission ‘in a world of need’
ATLANTA (ABP) — With a call to minister to “a world in need,” the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship began its 16th year by appointing 19 mission workers, welcoming a new missions coordinator, adopting a $17 million budget and contributing $32,801 to…
South African preacher, activist tells CBF to hear world’s ‘groans’
ATLANTA (ABP) — Maybe it takes a Methodist from South Africa to tell a bunch of Baptists in the American South that they need to wake up to reality and “step outside your own little bubble” in order to hear…
Fellowship breaks tradition with commissioning ceremony
ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship broke tradition June 23 during its annual general assembly in Atlanta by commissioning only short-term and self-funded mission workers, rather than any fully funded career missionaries. The group commissioned 19 new affiliated workers…
Carolyn Anderson, head of CBF Florida, announces retirement for next January
ATLANTA (ABP) — Carolyn Anderson, coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida since 2003, has announced her plans to retire Jan. 1. Anderson's announcement came at the June 22 CBF of Florida meeting during the Fellowship's annual general assembly…
Correction
There is an error in the 5th paragraph of the June 24 ABP story, “Episcopalians send mixed messages, Presbyterians moderate at meetings.” Please delete the second sentence of that paragraph and replace it with the following: “Only a handful of…
Shurden gives sobering warning on state of religious freedom
ATLANTA (ABP) — Warning “It can happen here,” Baptist historian Walter Shurden told religious-freedom advocates June 23 that the principle of religious freedom is threatened as never before in American history. “But many say, 'It can't happen here,'” Shurden said,…