Your article in the Dec. 9 issue, “Aiming at Southwest Virginia,” reports that the Virginia Baptist Mission Board approved Averett University's proposal to create a program to provide training and theological education to ministers and laity in Southwest Virginia. Such…
Honeycutt, former Southern Seminary president, dies after accident at home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Roy Honeycutt, retired president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Dec. 21, one day after suffering head injuries in a fall at his home in Louisville, Ky. He was 78. Honeycutt, a noted Old Testament scholar,…
Poll shows 44 percent of Americans would curtail Muslims’ civil rights
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Nearly half of all Americans would curtail the civil rights of Muslim-Americans in some way, according to a new survey. In the name of combating potential terrorism, 44 percent of respondents to a Cornell University survey said…
SBC leaders decline to join new ecumenical group
ATLANTA (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention will not join a new ecumenical group designed to bring Catholic, Orthodox, mainline Protestant and evangelical Christians together, according to news reports. A spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board…
Christian revival shakes the Big Apple
Another view for Dec. 23, 2004 By Tony Carnes They are patriotic, hard-working, mostly Democratic and mainly from immigrant families. They are also born-again Christians. Their faith is increasingly typical of New York City. On Sunday mornings about 1.5 million…
GUEST EDITORIAL: Keeping Christ in Christmas
When did corporate America become responsible for my Christmas cheer? In my 47 years on this earth, it has never occurred to me that I should look to advertising or store clerks for affirmation of my faith. That's what church…
Joy in the morning
The invitation came to visit Alana Woolley's house and look over her book collection. Obviously this highly-educated and well-read woman had surrounded herself with good books. There were Bible helps, literature, history, mathematics, scientific theory, spiritual growth, women's studies, and…
SBC or CBF?
I await my Religious Herald every week and read it cover to cover. I am a new deacon at Monument Heights Baptist and found “The noose tightens” [Herald, Dec. 9] disturbing. I confess I really don't completely understand the difference…
Church & People News for Dec. 23, 2004
S T A F F • C H A N G E S Benjamin Todd Thomason, to Baptist Temple Church, Alexandria, as senior pastor. Charlie Hoffler, to Cooper's Cove Church, Hardy, as pastor. Robert Hudman, to Enon Church, Roanoke, as…
American Baptist official decries gay debate
Regional leaders of the American Baptist Churches USA have issued a pastoral letter declaring that denominational debate on homosexuality “threatens to break us apart.” In their statement, released Dec. 2, regional executive ministers outlined steps they would take to deal…
SBC withdrawal from BWA, missionaries’ murder were top stories in 2004
By Greg Warner The Southern Baptist Convention's withdrawal from the Baptist World Alliance was the top Baptist news story of 2004, according to a survey of journalists. The murder of four SBC missionaries in Iraq was the second most significant…
SBC leaders say no to ecumenical group
The Southern Baptist Convention has told organizers of Christian Churches Together in the USA, a fledgling ecumenical organization, that it has no interest in joining. The new organization, set to formally launch next fall, aims to bring Catholics, mainline Protestants,…