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Randell Everett to resign at Leland

Randell Everett will resign at the end of the year as president of the John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Arlington, where he has served for the past nine years. “These past nine years have been an incredible experience…

Study counts 1,600 ordained Baptist women in U.S.

Roughly 1,600 Baptist women in the United States have been ordained to the ministry, according to a new report released June 21 by Baptist Women in Ministry. The study reported that 60 Baptist women became ordained ministers in 2005. According…

Former Arizona foundation executives convicted of fraud, await sentencing

In what has been described as the largest case of fraud targeting a religious group, the former top executive and legal counsel for the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were convicted on multiple fraud-related counts July 24. A Maricopa County, Ariz.,…

Afghan religious, political leaders discuss religious liberty with BJC

Traveling on a U.S. State Department-sponsored program, a member of parliament and three religious leaders from Afghanistan met with Baptist Joint Committee Executive Director J. Brent Walker for a conversation about religious liberty at the BJC's offices July 20. The…

MID-ATLANTIC DIGEST

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Churches maintain Ministry on the Mall. Baptists in the District of Columbia are continuing their Ministry on the Mall this summer, as churches offer hospitality to the tourists that flock to Washington's National Mall. Area churches offer…

EDITORIAL: What can one Christian do?

Once again CNN, the Internet and the Spirit have driven me to my knees. It is not fear so much as frustration that creates in me an agony of soul. In addition to information supplied by the network news reports,…

On baptism

I was interested to read a recent article about baptism [Herald, July 20]. As it happens, I was raised in an independent Christian church and baptized around age 14. About 12 years later, after my wife and I were married…

Baptismal practices

It amazes me that there are well-meaning church folk who continue to squabble over issues such as proper baptism practices. Do we understand that when we fret over “distinctive Baptist practices” that few in our society understand or care about,…

The first fight

I just read a wonderful review of a new book on the America gospel written by Jon Meacham. It said that America's first fight was over faith. It went on to say that when the Founding Fathers gathered for the…

In the schoolhouse or the church house?

Fifty years ago most children received some exposure to the Judeo-Christian faith tradition in the tax-supported public schools. My faintest recollection is that my school had opening exercises with the pledge to the flag, some Bible verses and a prayer….

ANOTHER VIEW: The stem cell veto

President Bush's veto July 19 of any change in his stem cell research policy was derided by many as a sop to his conservative base. But the price that the president and his party are sure to pay for this…

A Mormon for president?

With one Mormon looking like a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, it may be time to ask the question Americans asked about Catholic candidate John F. Kennedy in 1960: Is the country ready to elect a…

Rise of American authoritarianism demands a choice, Perryman says

Shaving Dad goodbye

The Enhanced Games were another MAGA grift

It’s bad interpretation, not the Bible, limiting female pastors