President Obama’s compromise plan for mandatory coverage of contraceptives does not solve religious liberty concerns for the Southern Baptist Convention’s insurance provider, GuideStone Financial Resources President O.S. Hawkins said in a statement Feb. 10. GuideStone’s medical plan is self-funded, Hawkins…
Baptist leaders welcome birth-control compromise
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptist leaders based in the Mid-Atlantic applauded President Obama’s Feb. 10 announcement that insurance companies must pay for birth-control services for women who work for religious institutions that object to paying for them on moral grounds. “This…
Baptist leaders welcome birth-control compromise
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptist leaders based in the Mid-Atlantic applauded President Obama’s Feb. 10 announcement that insurance companies must pay for birth-control services for women who work for religious institutions that object to paying for them on moral grounds. “This…
Baptist leaders welcome birth-control compromise
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Baptist leaders based in the Mid-Atlantic applauded President Obama’s Feb. 10 announcement that insurance companies must pay for birth-control services for women who work for religious institutions that object to paying for them on moral grounds. “This…
Baptist leader says contraceptive mandate should be revised
Brent Walker By Bob Allen The head of a Baptist religious liberty watchdog group said Feb. 8 that the Obama administration should return new health-care regulations to the drawing board to address religious liberty concerns. The Affordable Care Act, also…
Criticism of contraceptive coverage policy grows
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new policy requiring some religious institutions to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives has drawn additional criticism, this time from both the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and — in a rare display of disagreement…
Criticism of contraceptive coverage policy grows
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new policy requiring some religious institutions to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives has drawn additional criticism, this time from both the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and — in a rare display of disagreement…
Till death (or illness or dementia) us do part?
LYNCHBURG, Va. (RNS) — Philip Weeks fondly remembers the days when his wife of 56 years, June, was a nurse and an artist whose paintings were compared to Rembrandt’s. Her paintings still hang in their home in Lynchburg, Va., but…
Virginia Intermont equestrians win 13th IHSA contest
BRISTOL, Va. — On the heels of winning Reserve Championship in the 2012 Overall Tournament of Champions National Series, Virginia Intermont College equestrians took first place in both home shows Feb. 4-5. VI’s Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Riding Team achieved…
Baptist campus minister named at Old Dominion
NORFOLK, Va. – Brett Baddorf has been named Baptist campus minister at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Baddorf, who assumed the post Feb. 1, had been serving as interm campus minister for the past 18 months. Baddorf will coordinate…
Gardner-Webb hosts dialog on racial reconciliation
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. — It’s been more than five decades since the beginning of the Civil Rights movement in America, a lifetime since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent revolution against the inequality and injustice that permeated the American South….
Baptist Build connects churches in Winston-Salem, N.C.
WINST0N-SALEM, N.C. — Rob Lemons doesn’t know anything about the family that will one day occupy the house he’s helping build for them. He doesn’t know their names or their story, but that really doesn’t seem to matter to Lemons….