By Bob Allen The World Relief Office of American Baptist Churches USA is sending $10,000 in emergency relief funds from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering to aid earthquake victims in China. Funds will be divided evenly between two…
EDITORIAL: Spiritual schizophrenia
When CBS wanted to visually portray “the perfect American small town” in the trailer of its highly touted series, Under the Dome, the camera came to rest on a classic white frame church building. Curiously, whenever TV and movie producers…
Service set for slain minister’s wife
By Bob Allen A memorial service is scheduled Saturday for a Baptist minister’s wife found slain July 23 in her home in Birmingham, Ala. First Baptist Church of Birmingham released a statement July 25 announcing the death of long-time church…
Glorieta owners up buyout offer
By Ken Camp The new owners of Glorieta Conference Center have increased the maximum amount to buy out leaseholders on the property from $40,000 to $100,000. Glorieta 2.0, the Christian camping group taking over the cash-strapped New Mexico facility from…
Accused camp chaperone out of jail
By Bob Allen A North Carolina man charged with sex offenses at a Baptist youth camp got out of jail July 23 after a judge reduced his bond from $350,000 to $20,000. Clyde Wesley Way, 68, was arrested July 10…
HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
Accepted a new call? Been ordained? Church celebrating an anniversary? Mission trip or project that you would like highlighted on the HeraldBeat page? Send info to HeraldBeat editor Barbara Francis at [email protected]. Transitions ON THE MOVE Dan Crumley, to Oak…
Religious moderates face challenge
By Jeff Brumley New research predicting the rise of religious progressives and a conservative decline presents a challenge to those in the middle, including moderate Baptists, according to some leading Baptist and other Christian activists and thinkers. The Public Religion Research Institute survey…
Ala. minister’s wife slain in home
By Bob Allen An Alabama Baptist minister’s wife was found dead in her home July 23 in a case that police regard an apparent homicide. Karen Louise Shahan, 52, was discovered at about 11:15 a.m. on the couch of her…
CBF pastor seeks immigration reform
By Bob Allen A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastor joined fellow clergy July 24 in a press conference on the U.S. Capitol Building lawn calling for broad immigration reform. “We are not here to endorse any specific bill or any particular…
Baptists take sides in ordinance debate
By Bob Allen Baptist clergy are lining up on both sides of a debate about a proposed fairness ordinance dividing city commissioners in Frankfort, Ky. Hershael York, a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and pastor of Buck Run Baptist…
Shots fired in Missouri church
By Bob Allen A Missouri man faces multiple charges after allegedly shooting a gun in a Southern Baptist church during Sunday morning worship. About 40 people at First Baptist Church in Norwood, Mo., were in attendance July 21 when an…
A Buena Vista, Va., middle school has new life, thanks to church’s partnership with community
BUENA VISTA, Va. — Parry McCluer Middle School is located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley — one block from Buena Vista Baptist Church. Like many aging school buildings in small towns, it is full of memories for generations of students who…