BWIM puts up a billboard in Orlando

Virginia Baptist Homes Inc. is proud to be a ministry of Virginia Baptists and to have assisted thousands of seniors in housing and healthcare over the past 60 years under the umbrella of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. The…

Thanks for your recent editorial entitled “SBC continues its snub of the BGAV.” You are “right on” with your evaluation and comments regarding the SBC leadership's suspcion of the BGAV. Suspicion is usually rooted in ignorance and denial, both of…

I would like to respond to the editorial by Jim White in the Religious Herald, “SBC continues snub of the BGAV,” [July 10] concerning the nomination of individuals from the BGAV. My name is Steve Tyree, pastor of Elon Baptist…

I have been cogitating for some time on the matter of the CBF breakout session titled “The Changing Shape of Our Salvation,” led by John Killinger during the recent CBF meeting in Memphis. In the June 26 issue of the…

In his editorial concerning generous orthodoxy, [“How generous should orthodoxy be?”, June 26] Jim White wrote about John Killinger's presentation at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, in which Killinger questioned the view that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation….

Veteran Baylor University professor and administrator Randall O'Brien has been named president of Baptist-affiliated Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn. Trustees elected him July 8. O'Brien will assume full-time duties Jan. 1, 2009, after a transitional period that begins in…

STAFF CHANGES • Lynn Hardaway, to Temple Church, Newport News, as pastor. • Jane Tucker Lyon, to Antioch Church, Red Oak, as pastor. • Allen Bonnell, concluding his pastorate at Clintwood Church, Clintwood. • Stephen Renalds, to First Church, Elkton,…

In reference to those who felt the need to write an open letter chastising Dr. [Cecil] Sherman for his remarks at the CBF General Assembly, I would like to remind each of the letter's signers that Dr. Sherman has never…

In Baptist churches, we deeply believe in the priesthood of the believer, which also leads us to congregational decision-making. Each believer has the privilege and responsibility to seek God's direction and make decisions together accordingly. We do this when we…

Philanthropist Templeton dies at 95. John Templeton, American-born investor and philanthropist who devoted his later life to funding the scientific study of religion, died July 8 at a hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, at 95. Templeton founded a prize for “progress…