ATLANTA (ABP) — Robert Nash has received the nomination for the global missions coordinator position at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. CBF council members will vote to approve the nomination at their annual meeting June 21 in Atlanta. The nomination comes…
Humility the key for common ground, stress Baylor inauguration speakers
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Humility and civility offer common ground where faith and reason can exist in harmony — whether in a nation or on a Christian university campus, speakers stressed at the inauguration of John Lilley as Baylor University's…
Playboy calls for Baylor women; officials tell students to resist the call
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Playboy photographers held an open casting call April 18 at Baylor University, despite the university's discipline and suspension in recent years of students who posed in the magazine. The magazine's photographers traveled to Baylor to solicit…
Louisiana Baptists begin plans to build 1,000 New Orleans homes in two years
NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — In a move that one official termed a “God-sized” task, Southern Baptists have pledged a Herculean effort to rebuild homes and churches destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Jim Burton, director of volunteer mobilization for the Southern Baptist…
Students plan day of speech to counter ‘Day of Silence’
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The culture wars over homosexuality are coming to your local high school soon, featuring a two-day battle. As an estimated 500,000 high school and college students nationwide plan to participate in the national “Day of Silence” April…
New Orleans-area CBF church emerges in Katrina’s aftermath
ATLANTA (ABP) — Amid disaster-response efforts to rebuild homes and lives after Hurricane Katrina, a new Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church has been born in western St. Tammany Parish, La. Bridgewater Church, launched Feb. 12 with a worship service at Madisonville…
Survey results: Church not important for spiritual growth, Americans say
DALLAS (ABP) — Almost three-fourths of Americans claim to be Christians, but only a small fraction consider church the place to deepen their faith, a new survey says. Less than 20 percent of American adults believe participation in a congregation…
Letter for April 6, 2006
Thanks for editorial Well, Jim, you have done it again. That is, written a piece about an important topic of interest to Virginia Baptists-one which has two very definite sides-and you have avoided being mean-spirited, or even unkind. What are…
OTHER VIEW: U.S. immigration policies: A Christian perspective
Another View for April 6, 2006 By Daniel Carro Virginia Baptist Mission Board Monday evening, when I entered my class of “Who is Jesus” at the Leland Center, I could not anticipate I would not be able to deliver my…
EDITORIAL: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Editorial for April 13, 2006 By Jim White Editor A few weeks ago, in the aftermath of the cartoons of Mohammed that appeared first in newspapers in Denmark and later in other countries, a Hampton Roads newspaper interviewed a Muslim…
‘Christian MySpace’ promises teens Internet safety, but others not so sure
DALLAS (ABP) — The Internet can be a scary place, at least for the parents of teenagers flocking to social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook. Teens see them as places to keep up with friends and make new ones…
Horse sense helps in life, education for Judson College equestriennes
MARION, Ala. (ABP) — When Jennifer Hoggle first visited Judson College, she didn't care much about touring the campus. She didn't even really care about seeing the dorms. “I just wanted to see the barn. The barn looked fine to…