According to a recent Associated Press report, for many years Egypt’s Christian minority refused to become involved in politics for fear of reprisals. They relied, instead, on their church to make their case to those in power. When Hosni Mubarak…
HERITAGE: Good folks to know
It does not take long for the most active and involved, even high-profiled, denominational servant or church person to be largely forgotten. If illness or old age or unemployment sidetracks, the person is removed from the mainstream and quickly becomes…
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 Mark Mofield, to Temple…
LEADERSHIP LINK: Healthcare reform: Time to pay attention
No doubt, you have heard a lot about Obamacare or, to use its official name, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). But most discussions I’ve heard have produced more heat than light! In our attempt to help churches…
WINN RECOMMENDS: Books that matter
Moving Miss Peggy, Robert Benson (Abingdon) Robert Benson is one of our finest writers. If you have not read him, I suggest you do so now. Miss Peggy is Robert’s mom, and this masterful story narrates Peggy’s diagnosis of dementia…
OPINION: Relegation or responsibility?
What is another word for “thesaurus”? Roget has given every writer a treasure book for alternative ways of saying the same thing. The usage of words rises and falls in the marketplace of ideas and culture much like the tides…
TRENDING: SEKAP
Here’s a no-brainer trend: blogs, Twitter and Facebook pronouncements by public religious leaders going viral with all kinds of unintended negative consequences. Besides making me shake my bald head, it raises the question of what the “best practices” trend will…
VITAL SIGNS: Third pig thinking
You remember the story of the Three Little Pigs, don’t you? Sent out by their mother to make their way in the world, they live in fear of the Big Bad Wolf. Their first order of business is to build…
OPINION: Of cucumbers and pickles
Until recently, I hated pickles. I didn’t like the smell or the taste but mostly it was the concept. I felt queasy about eating something sitting in a jar for who knows how long. It seemed too akin to embalming,…
OPINION: The Trayvon Martin case as a symbol
Anyone who followed the Florida v. George Zimmerman court case closely was probably not surprised by the verdict. Even to this legal layman, who saw only snippets of the arguments provided by the media, it seemed that the prosecution’s task…
Missions comes full circle for ABC
By Bob Allen Two hundred years after the first American Baptist missionaries arrived in Burma, American Baptist Churches USA and the Myanmar Baptist Convention look forward to a new chapter of cooperation and collaboration in an altered missionary landscape. Yam…
Stunned by arson, church will worship Sunday
By Jeff Brumley Investigators now know that arson was the cause of two fires that struck Providence Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday morning. What authorities and the CBF-affiliated church still don’t know is who did it and why. “At…