By Jeff Brumley Florida Amendment 8 has pitted secular civil rights and education activists against religious conservatives in a rhetorical battle over the meaning of religious liberty. But the measure also has re-exposed the divide between Baptists over the separation…
Va., N.C. volunteers are deployed to stricken Northeast, D.C. teams continue damage assessment
Baptist disaster relief volunteers from Virginia and North Carolina were deployed to stricken New York and New Jersey Oct. 31, while the District of Columbia Baptist Convention’s emergency response team continued damage assessments in Washington and Maryland. The teams were…
Va., N.C. volunteers are deployed to stricken Northeast, D.C. teams continue damage assessment
Baptist disaster relief volunteers from Virginia and North Carolina were deployed to stricken New York and New Jersey Oct. 31, while the District of Columbia Baptist Convention’s emergency response team continued damage assessments in Washington and Maryland. The teams were…
Va., N.C. volunteers are deployed to stricken Northeast, D.C. teams continue damage assessment
Baptist disaster relief volunteers from Virginia and North Carolina were deployed to stricken New York and New Jersey Oct. 31, while the District of Columbia Baptist Convention’s emergency response team continued damage assessments in Washington and Maryland. The teams were…
Va., N.C. volunteers are deployed to stricken Northeast, D.C. teams continue damage assessment
Baptist disaster relief volunteers from Virginia and North Carolina were deployed to stricken New York and New Jersey Oct. 31, while the District of Columbia Baptist Convention’s emergency response team continued damage assessments in Washington and Maryland. The teams were…
BWA assessing hurricane damage
By Eron Henry Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, has granted an initial sum of $20,000 for relief to the Caribbean following the passage of Hurricane Sandy through the northern Caribbean and the…
Carter Center supports Israel probe
By Bob Allen Former President Jimmy Carter commended 15 Christian leaders whose recent call for Congress to investigate human-rights violations by Israelis against Palestinians caused tension between Jewish and mainline Protestant denominations in the United States. The Atlanta-based Carter Center…
Ministry reaches out to strippers
By Kaitlin Warrington Jesus loves strippers, too, but fear of the unknown too often hinders Christians from reaching out to women trapped in the sex industry, a leader in an outreach ministry to exotic dancers said at a recent conference…
Sandy delays Passport camp booking
By Bob Allen A youth ministry aligned with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has postponed the normal Nov. 1 registration for its popular Passport camps by one week in light of anticipated power outages in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast caused by…
Churches in Mid-Atlantic lashed as Sandy makes landfall, leaving millions flooded, without power
Churches joined thousands of other organizations across the Mid-Atlantic Monday in closing facilities and cancelling activities as Hurricane Sandy made landfall, leaving millions without power and flooding most coastal areas. Much of Ocean City, Md., was underwater as Hurricane Sandy…
Power outages in Mid-Atlantic, Northeast delay Passport camp bookings
TEASER: Passport, Inc. will delay its annual Nov. 1 registration start date by one week due to massive power outages along the eastern seaboard. Registration for next summer’s camps is now scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 7. Bob Allen BIRMINGHAM,…
Looking for an undecided voter? Check the pulpit
(RNS) — Pollsters and politicians hunting for the rare and elusive undecided voter might want to train their sights on the pulpit. A whopping 22 percent of Protestant pastors haven’t settled on a presidential candidate, according to a survey released…