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FAITH DIGEST

Colorado megachurch approves Haggard's successor. New Life Church, the Colorado megachurch whose leader Ted Haggard was dismissed last year after a sex and drug scandal, has approved a new senior pastor. Brady Boyd, pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas,…

North Carolina WMU decides to leave convention control

CARY, N.C. (ABP) — Woman's Missionary Union of North Carolina has voted to remove itself from the North Carolina Baptist Building — and from the state convention executive director's attempt to assert authority over its staff. The dramatic move culminates…

MID-ATLANTIC BRIEFS

Chowan names associate campus ministers. Chowan University in Murfreesboro, N.C., has named Craig and Jennifer Janney as associate ministers to the university. The Janneys They will assist Mari Wiles, minister to the university, and also teach, serve as chaplains to…

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: Why celebrate it?

RICHMOND — Virginia Baptist pastor Victor Visotsky knows about religious persecution. Visotsky, now pastor of New Life Russian Baptist Church in Falls Church, grew up in Soviet Estonia. He remembers how members of his Baptist church were arrested and imprisoned…

Office supply savings means more for ministry

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — File folders, printer paper, writing pens, staplers — as necessary as these items are for running a church office, these can seem like superfluous expenses in light of funds needed for evangelistic and discipleship purposes. In an…

Peruvians find unity in quakes aftermath

PISCO, Peru (BP) — The tremor lasts only a moment, but Amparo Guerra can't mistake the familiar feel of the earth moving in waves beneath her feet. Her forehead wrinkles in panic as she screams, “Get away from the building!”…

Pastor faces possible five years in prison

KHALKABAD, Uzbekistan — Four years after being harassed by authorities, the small Baptist congregation in Khalkabad near Pap in the eastern Namangan Region of Uzbekistan is again facing harassment for meeting without compulsory registration. Local Baptists told Forum 18 News…

Azeri pastor sentenced to two years in prison

WASHINGTON (BWA) — Zaur Balaev, a 44-year old pastor in Aliabad, Azerbaijan, was sentenced to two years in prison Aug. 8 on charges that he beat up five policemen and damaged a police car door, according to Forum 18. Arrested…

2ND OPINION: Looking for new Catherines

RICHMOND (BP) — She was born 660 years ago into a world tormented by fear, chaos and death. Her mother wanted her to be a “normal” daughter, to marry and rear a family behind the relatively secure walls of middle-class…

RESPONSE: Immigration commentaries

In regard to the response you published on my Second Opinion article of Aug. 9 [“What should lawmakers do?”], I just want to make two points of clarification for your readers: First, the Latino Network of Virginia Baptists is not…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for Sept. 6, 2007

STAFF CHANGES • Jack Thomas, to Lyles Church, Palmyra, as pastor. • Dennis V. Jones, to Dublin Church, Dublin, as pastor. • Joshua L. M. Pittman, to Upper King & Queen Church, Newtown, as pastor. • James Combow, resigning as…

EDITORIAL: Greed vs. creed

The stage is being set for a showdown. In this corner, Goliath of Gath oozing greed from every pore. In the opposite corner, Little David who has only a sense of right and wrong going for him. Chances are you…

Islamophobia is the next bogeyman

The Black Church cannot remain America’s emergency moral infrastructure

We are manna

Webinar explores religious context of America’s Founders