On Friday, my friend Tori Lane held a benefit to raise money for HEART, a program of healing for victims of sexual assault. As a poet and visual artist, Tori thinks in metaphors and striking images. As a performer, she…
Churches seek to help ease stress on caregivers — sometimes a challenging task
The New Testament commands Christ’s followers to “bear one another’s burdens.” But applying that principle to caregivers — people who shoulder the around-the-clock responsibility for meeting the needs of someone who cannot live independently because of advanced age, illness or…
Did I care enough? Caregiver recalls struggle with anger and guilt
During the five years she served as his caregiver, Sue Strother and her husband, Joe, understood the roles each filled. “He bore the pain. I bore the strain,” Mrs. Strother said. Her husband, pastor of North Riverside Baptist Church in…
EDITORIAL: An old question recast
Some of you, like me, are old enough to remember Flip Wilson and his comic assertion, “The devil made me do it.” Now there seems to be research that backs up this claim. Well, maybe not the devil, exactly, but…
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 James R. Hunter, to…
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 James R. Hunter, to…
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 James R. Hunter, to…
Former aide: Mahaney should be sidelined
By Bob Allen A former associate of a pastor named in a class-action lawsuit alleging a cover-up of sexual and physical abuse of children has called on Christian leaders, including Southern Baptists, to remove the disgraced minister from leadership roles…
Slain pastor lawsuit headed for trial
By Bob Allen A former Georgia police officer must stand trial to defend himself against misconduct alleged in a lawsuit stemming from the fatal shooting of a Southern Baptist minister in a botched drug-sting investigation in 2009, the 11th U.S….
Plan would reduce DC’s role in SBC
By Robert Dilday The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee will consider a proposal to fold the District of Columbia Baptist Convention into a larger region, reducing the number of Baptists in the nation’s capital represented on the governing boards of…
Deltaville, Va., church, stricken by tornado two years ago, within months of opening new sanctuary
DELTAVILLE, Va. — Zoar Baptist Church, whose sanctuary was destroyed by a tornado that wreaked havoc in its Chesapeake Bay community nearly two years ago, is well on its way to recovery, as its new building nears completion. Zoar's new…
N.C. pastor tapped to lead Va. Baptist learning communities initiative aimed at emerging leaders
RICHMOND — North Carolina pastor Charity Roberson has been tapped to lead a new Virginia Baptist initiative developing learning communities aimed at identifying and training potential church leaders among students of all ages. Roberson, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in…