GREENVILLE, N.C. — What started as part of Oakmont Baptist Church’s ministry to its next-door neighbors has grown into a free medical clinic that helps people from across North Carolina’s Pitt County. The church’s approach to missions was transformed after…
HERITAGE: The mystery of the porcelain cat
When this columnist visited First Baptist Church in Raleigh, he met Frances Ward Brooks, who pulled out of her pocketbook a small piece of blue and white china, a figurine of a porcelain cat. She remembered that in her childhood…
OPINION: How strong is the unity of the cross?
One of the things that I treasure most about being a Virginia Baptist is that we take the gospel more seriously than we take ourselves. We know that the Holy Spirit is more powerful than we are. This is why…
Orrock named coordinator of Kairos Initiative, also will be Baptist collegiate minister in Richmond
Student minister named coordinator of Kairos Initiative, will serve as Baptist college minister in Richmond area Robert Dilday RICHMOND — Richmond minister Welford Orrock has been tapped to serve as coordinator of the Kairos Initiative, a “revisioning” of collegiate ministry…
Orrock named coordinator of Kairos Initiative, also will be Baptist collegiate minister in Richmond
RICHMOND — Richmond minister Welford Orrock has been tapped to serve as coordinator of the Kairos Initiative, a “revisioning” of collegiate ministry which the Virginia Baptist Mission Board hopes will dramatically expand Christian outreach among young adults in Virginia. Welford…
Website remembers Grady Nutt
By Bob Allen Thirty years after the tragic death of television’s “prime minister of humor,” the family of Baptist comedian Grady Nutt has launched an official website in his honor. “For years, fans have asked us if we are ever…
Website remembers Grady Nutt
By Bob Allen Thirty years after the tragic death of television’s “prime minister of humor,” the family of Baptist comedian Grady Nutt has launched an official website in his honor. “For years, fans have asked us if we are ever…
Website remembers Grady Nutt
By Bob Allen Thirty years after the tragic death of television’s “prime minister of humor,” the family of Baptist comedian Grady Nutt has launched an official website in his honor. “For years, fans have asked us if we are ever…
The sacred ran through jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s music
(RNS) — “I approached the composition as a prayer,” jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck said of his To Hope! A Celebration, a contemporary setting for the Roman Catholic Mass, “concentrating upon the phrases, trying to probe beneath the surface,…
The sacred ran through jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s music
(RNS) — “I approached the composition as a prayer,” jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck said of his To Hope! A Celebration, a contemporary setting for the Roman Catholic Mass, “concentrating upon the phrases, trying to probe beneath the surface,…
Video recalls ‘forgotten’ Pearl Harbor
By Bob Allen President Franklin Roosevelt’s description of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack as “a date which will live in infamy” went down in history, but Yosh Nakagawa remembers another day – Feb. 19, 1942. That’s when FDR, in…
ACLU protests sentencing teen to church
By Bob Allen The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma has filed a judicial complaint against a Southern Baptist judge who required a teenager to attend church for 10 years as a condition of probation for manslaughter. The complaint filed…