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Driggers to retire from S.C. leadership post

(BP) — Carlisle Driggers will retire as executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention on Feb. 28, 2007, after 15 years at the helm of the nation's oldest state Baptist convention. Driggers, 68, made the announcement during the April…

FIRST PERSON: There are giants among us

Not that long ago I was talking to a friend who moved to a new pastorate. His predecessor served this “tall steeple” church for 25 years, but unfortunately, the “retired” pastor was having trouble letting go the reins of leadership….

Cooperative Missions CD is available

A new CD detailing Virginia Baptists' mission work is available for churches to use. The GO: Responding to the Signs of the Times CD can be ordered from the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. “Virginia Baptists are a body of believers…

Historical Society to focus on missions

‘It's All About Missions!” is the theme for the annual meeting of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society set for 7:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 16 at Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond. The keynote speaker will be Rosalie Hall Hunt, a…

A leadership experience

Eight members of the youth ministry team from Webber Memorial Baptist Church and I had the opportunity to participate in the most unique leadership training I have experienced in my 15+ years of ministry. The HALT (Horse Assisted Leadership Training)…

The Bootleg Stone

The grey headstone looks like many others in the cemetery surrounding the old sanctuary of Mount Hermon Baptist Church in Moseley, but a few taps on this grave marker quickly demonstrates that it is hollow and made of metal. The…

Venturers: Virginia Baptists introduce a new avenue for mission service around the world

Along with warmer weather, budding leaves and blooming flowers, the advent of April 2006 brought with it another form of growth — this one within Virginia Baptists' opportunities for mobilizing volunteers for mission service. On April 3, the Venturer Program,…

EDITORIAL: Glad to be a Virginia Baptist

You would think after 25 years in the pastorate, I would have learned not to call the office while I'm on vacation. I'm a slow learner. In fact, I may fit into the “old dogs” category at this stage of…

ANOTHER VIEW: Judas, Dan Brown and Jesus

I'm not sure if I've ever seen such an explosion of public interest in Jesus — from a variety of angles old and new (some would say odd). Whether this fascination simply means that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code…

The devil’s revival

William E. Hatcher, the popular preacher of the 19th century whose persona this columnist frequently assumes, told the following story in his autobiography. It is a fascinating revelation of a time that is no more. The only part of the…

ANOTHER VIEW: Outrageous and anti-semitic, Gnostics penned more than Gospel of Judas

From all the hullabaloo in the press over the Gospel of Judas, one might easily conclude that something like the plot of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code had suddenly been demonstrated as historical fact rather than fiction. Much of…

SIDEBAR: The Gospel of Judas: What is it?

The manuscript know as the Gospel of Judas is a series of tattered and fragmented sheets of papyrus in Coptic, an Egyptian script, and is contained in a 66-page, leather-bound “codex” that the National Geographic Society unveiled April 6. Terry…

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone