First Person for February 23, 2006 By Connie Cavanaugh One day Susan called and asked if I had time to squeeze in a walk. We hadn’t walked for weeks because life had dished up a few extra helpings on both…
Nobody likes criticism. Why should NAMB be different?
Editorial for February 23, 2006 By Jim White On pages 2 and 3 of this issue, we have shared a news story that involves the North American Mission Board and what the state Baptist paper of Georgia, the Christian Index…
Aunt Ida shares a whopper
Editorial for March 9, 2006 By Jim White Dear Jimmy, Well have I got a story to tell you. Every year your Uncle Orley and his brothers get together for a big fishin’ trip. As they have gone several years…
Testing the three Cs
Heritage Column for February 23, 2006 By Fred Anderson Conscience, courage and conviction are the three c’s which are tested from time to time in the lives of men and women. Slavery was one of the great moral dilemmas for…
Friends
Heritage Column for March 9, 2006 By Fred Anderson Clergy and laity can be friends. W. Landon Miller and Vince E. Richards proved it. When Vince and Elsie Richards moved to Richmond from Fredericksburg in 1966, they joined Northminster Baptist…
Letters to the Editor for February 23, 2006
Unqualified to be pastor In reference to Brooks R. Faulkner’s article in the Feb. 9 issue, “I’m Unqualified to be a Pastor in 2006,” three cheers and a dozen “amen’s” for him! I am not qualified to comment on his…
Letters for March 9, 2006
Intelligent design revisited The Feb. 16 issue of the Herald carried an article by Marylee Sturgis of Charlottesville. Several points were made which I as a Baptist find unsubstanuated. Sturgis says that she cannot support the teaching of “intelligent design.”…
Church & People News for February 23, 2006
Staff Changes Jim Davidson, to Bethel Church, Fredericksburg, as pastor. Nick Shaffer, to West Salem Church, Salem, as pastor. Don Jones, to Great Fork Church, Suffolk, as full-time pastor. Ray Allen, to Airlee Court Church, Roanoke, as interim pastor. Rick…
GuideStone offers assistance in taxes for ministers
DALLAS — Ministers can find additional help in preparing their 2007 federal income tax returns from GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. The annual Ministers Tax Guide for 2007 Returns details recent changes to tax laws and their…
Catholic Democrats outline beliefs on church, state, abortion rights
WASHINGTON (ABP) — In an apparent attempt to address a controversy that has swirled since the 2004 general election, a group of Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives issued a document Feb. 28 explaining how they reconcile their faith…
Terrorist executed in Yemen for killing Baptist missionaries
DALLAS (ABP) – A man convicted of murdering three Southern Baptist missionaries in a Yemeni hospital in 2002 died by firing squad Feb. 27, Reuters reported. Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel's execution happened in the southern Ibb province, the same region…
Supreme Court says racketeering law can’t be used against abortion protests
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A unanimous Supreme Court declared Feb. 28 that a federal law originally aimed at mobsters can't be used to shut down abortion-clinic protests. The high court already ruled in 2003 that one federal anti-racketeering law cannot be…