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…
OPINION: A call for unity, love and prayer
Journal entries in response to our Virginia Baptist division Romans 13: 8-10 (NIRV) says, “Pay everything you owe. But you can never pay back all the love you owe each other. Those who love others have done everything the…
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…
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…