NEW YORK (RNS) — A bipartisan coalition of 80 U.S. mayors on Jan. 20 launched a “Freedom to Marry” campaign to build public support for giving same-sex couples the right to marry under U.S. and state laws. “It is not…
VITAL SIGNS: The unbalanced church
When a congregation wants to get, stay or remain healthy, one of the key questions it asks has to do with the balance between its internal and an external focus. One excellent congregational exercise to help with this question is…
Church administrator charged with theft
By Bob Allen A former administrator at a prominent North Carolina moderate Baptist church was arrested recently and charged with embezzling more than $136,000 in church funds over a five-year period. Robert Lahr, 49, is accused of taking $136,324.58 from…
Scholar compares culture-war issues to Germans who resisted Hitler
By Bob Allen A Baptist historian compared today’s battle for the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and religious freedom to courageous heroes who resisted the Nazis in Germany. Timothy George speaks to students and faculty of Judson College in chapel…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE John Moxley, to First Baptist Church, Dillwyn, Va., as pastor. Dave Hawes, to Fair Bluff (N.C.) Baptist Church, as pastor. David E. Roberts, to Hampton (Va.) Baptist Church, as interim pastor. Tim Williford, to Lystra Baptist…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE John Moxley, to First Baptist Church, Dillwyn, Va., as pastor. Dave Hawes, to Fair Bluff (N.C.) Baptist Church, as pastor. David E. Roberts, to Hampton (Va.) Baptist Church, as interim pastor. Tim Williford, to Lystra Baptist…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE John Moxley, to First Baptist Church, Dillwyn, Va., as pastor. Dave Hawes, to Fair Bluff (N.C.) Baptist Church, as pastor. David E. Roberts, to Hampton (Va.) Baptist Church, as interim pastor. Tim Williford, to Lystra Baptist…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE John Moxley, to First Baptist Church, Dillwyn, Va., as pastor. Dave Hawes, to Fair Bluff (N.C.) Baptist Church, as pastor. David E. Roberts, to Hampton (Va.) Baptist Church, as interim pastor. Tim Williford, to Lystra Baptist…
Raleigh, N.C., church administrator charged with theft
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — A former administrator at a prominent North Carolina moderate Baptist church was arrested recently and charged with embezzling more than $136,000 in church funds over a five-year period. Robert Lahr, 49, is accused of taking $136,324.58…
HeraldBeat
Transitions ON THE MOVE John Moxley, to First Baptist Church, Dillwyn, Va., as pastor. Dave Hawes, to Fair Bluff (N.C.) Baptist Church, as pastor. David E. Roberts, to Hampton (Va.) Baptist Church, as interim pastor. Tim Williford, to Lystra Baptist…
Supreme Court declines to review prayer case
By Bob Allen The U.S. Supreme Court declined Jan. 17 to reconsider a lower court’s decision barring a North Carolina county from invoking prayers in Jesus’ name at twice-a-month meetings of its main governing body. The court declined without comment…
Jim Newton, Baptist journalist, dies at 75
Jim Newton By Bob Allen Longtime Baptist journalist Jim Newton died Jan. 16 at Baptist Hospital hospice care in Clinton, Miss., after a battle with leukemia. Newton, 75, was born in Kingsville, Texas, into the third generation of a family…