By Robert Dilday Associate Editor From the beginning of Kunjumon Chacko's work with Prison Fellowship, it was the children of inmates that tugged at his heart-and eventually led to his network of children's homes across India. Last year, when thousands…
Disaster relief unit will provide basis for children’s ministry
Thanks to a contribution from a former Richmond church, Virginia Baptists will soon have a children’s ministry disaster response unit. The unit, a 16-foot long, 8-foot wide trailer, will be added to Virginia Baptists growing disaster relief program and provide…
Three students charged with Alabama church fires
By Hannah Elliott Associated Baptist Press Law enforcement officials arrested three men March 8 in connection with nine fires at Baptist churches in rural Alabama. Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee Debusk, both 19-year-old students at Birmingham-Southern College, said they…
Falwell denies he holds to ‘dual covenant’
Denying a Jerusalem Post story that said he had embraced a “dual covenant” theology, Virginia evangelist Jerry Falwell said March 1 that he believes all people, including Jews, “must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in order to enter heaven.”…
Chairman to ask IMB panel to revisit controversial issues
By Steve DeVane Associated Baptist Press The chairman of the International Mission Board is asking the board's personnel committee to take another look at two controversial measures the board passed in November. Chair Tom Hatley, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church…
Methodists reject Richmond over baseball team name
The United Methodist Church will not hold its 2012 leadership conference in Richmond because the name of the city’s minor league baseball team is racially charged, the church’s leadership has announced. Members of the conference’s planning commission said they were…
Terrorist executed for killing missionaries
Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel‚ convicted of murdering three Southern Baptist missionaries in a Yemeni hospital in 2002 died by firing squad Feb. 27, Reuters reported. Authorities already executed Kamel's accomplice, Ali al-Jarallah, Nov. 27 of last year. The Yemeni government…
Center seeks college students for Heritage Fellows
Baptist college students interested in church music and worship are encourged to apply for the 2006-07 class of Heritage Fellows of the Center for Baptist Heritage and Studies. The program provides an opportunity for Baptist sophomores and juniors attending Virginia…
Lotz to retire as BWA exec.; Kazakh Baptists withdraw
By Robert Marus and Jim White Denton Lotz, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, began his report to the BWA executive committee meeting in Falls Church by asking his wife, Janice, to join him at the podium. With her…
Satellite images renew interest in search for Noah’s ark
DALLAS (ABP) — Recently released satellite images of an unknown formation or object on Mt. Ararat in Turkey have added fuel to archeologists' ongoing quest to find Noah's ark. The “new and significant development,” an image from a QuickBird satellite,…
More Baptist churches looking to Lent for community, confession, cadence
DALLAS (ABP) — For Mike Clingenpeel and Ray Vickrey, Easter doesn't mean much without about 40 days of reflection and repentance before it. Though the two men pastor churches in different states — Clingenpeel at River Road Church, Baptist in…
Ordination variations: Some wonder is it baptistic? Is it biblical?
(ABP) — Renowned 19th century British preacher C. H. Spurgeon rejected the practice. Baptist statesman George Truett surrendered to it only at his church's insistence. Christian ethicist T. B. Maston accepted it as a deacon but not as a minister….