WACO, Texas (ABP) — After several fits and starts, Baylor University's search for new leadership has produced a president — John Lilley, current president of the University of Nevada, Reno, and a three-time graduate of Baylor. Lilley, 66, was elected…
Conservatives claim school survey, ruling ‘undermine’ parental rights
WASHINGTON (ABP) — In what has become something of a regular ritual, conservative groups are expressing outrage at a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — this one involving parents' rights and sex education. Socially conservative groups…
Homeless ministry in New Orleans adapts to new reality post-Katrina
NEW ORLEANS (ABP) — What do you do when you run a homeless shelter and the city has evacuated all the homeless? That's the situation facing Tobey Pitman, director of the Brantley Mission Center in New Orleans. As the city…
Thousands of mourners ’embrace beauty’ in life of electrocuted Waco pastor
WACO, Texas (ABP) — For many, it was only appropriate to remember Kyle Lake on All Saints Day, two days after the 33-year-old pastor of University Baptist Church died after being electrocuted while standing in the church's baptistry. “Kyle, in…
Baptist ‘brewhaha’: Leaders deny reports volunteers refused to pass out water
CLEWISTON, Fla. (ABP) — Southern Baptist disaster-relief leaders are denying reports, spread widely across the Internet, that a group of their volunteers in Florida refused to give water to victims of Hurricane Wilma because it came from a beer-brewing company….
Cutting socials programs is wrong way to balance budget, religious leaders say
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Religious leaders are calling on the consciences of members of Congress to avoid cutting social-welfare programs and taxes at the same time. “This is the message going out [from Congress]: In response to Hurricane Katrina, we're going…
Church & People News for November 3, 2005
Staff Changes David and Melissa Fox, to Marshall Church, Marshall, as co-pastors. Henry Styron, to North Pamunkey Church, Orange, as pastor. James Kopco, to Winn's Creek Church, Halifax, as pastor. Perry Clore, to Sharon Church, Scottsville, as pastor. Jerry Stanley,…
Virginia Baptists to join Baptists in India in carrying out ministry there
Cover Story for November 3, 2005 Virginia Baptists have carried out ministries in India for years-most recently in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami that hit the nation last December. Now those efforts are resulting with a full-blown missions partnership…
Virginia Baptists brave crowds at Martinsville’s NASCAR track to share gospel
Cover Story for November 3, 2005 By Jim White Before dawn on Sunday, Oct. 23, a dozen or so Virginia Baptists representing Henry County Baptist Association were already brewing coffee and stacking hundreds of donuts beneath their tent beside Gate…
Organic leaders, living churches: An interview with Bob Dale
Bob Dale, assistant executive director of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board and director of the Ray and Ann Spence Network for Congregational Leadership, is author of the recently-published Seeds for the Future: Growing Organic Leaders for Living Churches, available at…
Here’s to bus rocking
Editorial for November 3, 2005 By Jim White In 1955, who could ever have imagined that a “colored” lady who refused to give up her seat on a bus would one day lie in state in the rotunda of the…
A little bit of home
Heritage Column for November 3, 2005 By Fred Anderson When the messengers assemble for the annual meeting of the BGAV to be held next week in Woodbridge there should be a prize for the registered messenger from a BGAV member…