POWHATAN, Va. — Powhatan Community Church threw a birthday party for 130 people Aug. 31 — all of them homeless. It was held in Richmond’s Monroe Park with plenty of cake, ice cream and birthday gifts. The event is one…
As new executive take the helm, British Baptists rebrand their union to emphasize relationships
DIDCOT, England (ABP) — Baptist life in Great Britain entered a new stage this week under a new leader and with a new website and magazine aimed at rebranding the 122-year-old Baptist Union of Great Britain. Lynn Green Lynn Green,…
New Cooperative Baptist Fellowship structure energizes, leaders say as changes are implemented
ATLANTA (ABP) — About 140 people have visited Atlanta in the last four weeks for implementation of a new leadership structure adopted last year following a two-year study on ways to improve the 22-year-old Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s effectiveness and reach….
CBF solicits funds for Syria relief
By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship appealed Sept. 12 for financial donations to improve the lives of refugees in Syria’s two-year civil war. In recent days, the Decatur, Ga.,-based Fellowship approved $10,000 to help meet the immediate needs of…
British Baptists rebrand
By Bob Allen Baptist life in Great Britain entered a new stage this week under a new leader and with a new website and magazine aimed at rebranding the 122-year-old Baptist Union of Great Britain. Lynn Green, elected in May…
Chaplain ‘forever changed’ by war
By Jeff Brumley They don’t give Purple Hearts for the kind of wounds Air Force Maj. Charles Seligman suffered in Iraq, but that doesn’t make them any less real. “I was what they called a wounded healer,” said Seligman, a…
McAfee professor takes Atlanta pastorate
By Bob Allen A Mercer University administrator who transferred from Macon, Ga., to Atlanta to recruit the first entering class when McAfee School of Theology opened in 1996, is new pastor at the city’s Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church. Dock…
CBF charts course for networking model
By Bob Allen In its efforts to engage and mobilize younger leaders and laypeople in ministry, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship needs a little help from its friends, CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter said Sept. 10. “I think one of the…
OPINION: Slow-walking the faith-based rules
Remember the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (OFANP)? Well, it’s probably because the White House doesn’t really want you to. On Aug. 2, the press was notified that the director of the Office of Management and Budget…
LEADERSHIP LINK: Should churches make space available to outside groups?
Sooner or later every church has to decide whether it will make its building available for outside groups to use. The following Suggested Facility Use Covenant is a suggestion only, and not intended to be a legal document. For their…
What is Shariah and why do states like North Carolina want to ban it? A guide to the complex concept
(RNS) — North Carolina lawmakers approved a bill July 24 to prohibit judges from considering “foreign laws” in their decisions, but nearly everyone agrees that “foreign laws” really means Shariah, or Islamic law. North Carolina now joins six other states…
Removal of song from a hymnal because of reference to an atonement theory is drawing the ire of some
(ABP) — The wrath of God has become a point of contention since news broke that a new Presbyterian hymnal passed on the popular title In Christ Alone for theological reasons. “Why do many Christians shrink from any thought of…