ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — A seminary should create a “theological chain reaction,” Baptist educator Michael Quicke stressed during the inaugural convocation of the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute. The Carroll Institute, in its second academic year with 400 students, installed its…
Baptists Today taps Sherman for Judson-Rice Award
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — Cecil Sherman, the first national coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will receive the sixth annual Judson-Rice Award at an April 21 dinner at First Baptist Church of Asheville, N.C. The event is sponsored by the…
Wrap-up: Alito gives few hints on Roe v. Wade, First Amendment
WASHINGTON (ABP) — In four days of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Bush's pick for a pivotal seat on the Supreme Court revealed little about how he may rule on the day's most controversial issues. But experts said…
Correction
In the Jan. 11 ABP story “IMB seeks removal of blogging trustee, accuses Wade Burleson of 'broken trust,'” the article incorrectly reported that the International Mission Board's new practice of getting trustee approval for news releases about trustee actions was…
Bivocational ministers vital to Kingdom Advance
By Darrell Fletcher Field Strategist, VBMB Whenever I think about bivocational ministry, I remember a pastor friend of mine. For several years he pastored a country church along the Clinch River. At the same time, he milked cows twice a…
Hispanic ministries meet needs in Virginia
Courtney Hodges CBF Communications Greg and Sue Smith have built their two-year-old ministry among Hispanics on a principle that has served the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship well-partnership. Two years ago, the CBF of Virginia appointed the Smiths as missionaries. After serving…
Virginia Baptists have seat at table for AIDS conference at Saddleback
By Dee Whitten Virginia Baptist Mission Board It is more than just coincidence that the two largest and most influential evangelical churches in the United States have decided that the church needs to take a more active role in confronting…
Church & People News for January 12, 2006
Staff Changes Mark Miller, to Shalom Church, Mechanicsville, as senior pastor, effective Feb. 1. Nicholas Pierce, to Piedmont Church, Amelia, as pastor. Wayne Collis, to Gordonsville Church, Gordonsville, as pastor. Jeff Sowers has joined the launch team of Real Life…
EDITORIAL: When a preacher sins
Editorial for January 12, 2006 By Jim White Someone once wrote that true love is “when someone falls from a pedestal on which you have put him-but you catch him.” Every Baptist, indeed every true Christian, was deeply grieved by…
Letters for January 12, 2006
It’s all about Christmas It’s Christmas. Pure, plain and simple, it is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. For the spokespersons at the Baptist Joint Committee [“Is there a war on Christmas?” Herald, Dec. 15] and their cousins…
A new beginning
Heritage Column for January 12, 2006 By Fred Anderson The death last fall of Rosa Parks, an icon of the civil rights movement, brought back memories of my own. Like anyone who ever lived in the South in the days…
Stories of hope and survival still fresh in chaplain’s mind
Although now back home in Livermore, Calif., disaster relief chaplain Naomi Paget is still moved by her experiences in the Gulf Coast region during the past two months. Following are selected entries from personal reflections she recorded during her temporary…