Tucker Carlson is calling for Mike Huckabee to be fired as U.S. ambassador to Israel, after Huckabee did not defend a U.S. Congressman violently detained by Israeli settlers. This is the second event in a few days where Israeli settlers...
Dear Church: if you bring good news to your community you won’t need to inform your neighbors. They already know. If you don’t—well, chances are everybody knows but you. Let’s get down to it: a church is either welcome relief…
Some years ago I had the responsibility to lead a team moving a denominational organization of more than 100 staff persons from a 35,000 square foot building to an 80,000 square foot building less than two miles away. It needed…
MINERAL, Va. — When the youthful archers at Mineral Baptist Church line up and take aim, the real target is more than the bull’s-eye in their sights. According to Jeremy Debaets, director of Mineral Baptist Church Archery, the ministry’s aim…
I write in response to the Religious Herald’s article entitled “Razor thin margin” in the March 25 issue. It is absolutely appalling to see how far we have slipped as Christians and Baptists. To place church autonomy above allegiance to…
Dear Pastor Mandy England Cole, I am a member of McLean Baptist Church in McLean, Va. I am writing you as one Baptist to another and not as a representative of my congregation. That having been established, I have been…
As we draw near to the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the dead, my mind is drawn to Paul’s magnificent exclamation near the end of his first letter to a group of Jesus followers in the…
Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from December 1955 to December 1956, black residents of Montgomery, Ala., staged a modern marvel. Creating an intricate system of pick-up points and drop-off points, the African Americans of Montgomery staged…
WASHINGTON — The new head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships told reporters March 22 she values Baptists’ “special gift to the nation” — religious liberty — and looks forward to tackling religious liberty issues in…
(ABP) — College student Shelby Johnson missed the March 3 announcement that the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship was shifting its work in Haiti from disaster response to long-term projects, like community health and economic development. But the English and Spanish double…
It is time for Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches to end the double standard of ordaining women to the ministry but refusing to allow them to serve. I am a Baptist female trying to be faithful to God’s call upon my…
Thoughtful Christians can’t win the argument with hate-mongers simply by shouting them down. They must respond with loving actions that say clearly to Muslims that the extremists don’t speak for us. Where is the voice of the moderate church today?…
By Aaron Weaver Abortion, homosexuality and church-state separation are all issues on which Baptists have made their diverse opinions loudly known to the public. But predatory lending is not an issue that many associate with Baptists. Yet, Baptists in several…
