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Volunteer missions stories sought for resource

A retired Virginia Baptist pastor is seeking experiences of missions volunteers to be compiled into a resource for churches. Ray Allen, retired pastor of Blacksburg Baptist Church in Blacksburg and a missions volunteer himself, is collecting “interesting, inspiring or humorous”…

Alan Stanford elected at Leland Center

Alan Stanford has been elected vice president of the John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Falls Church by the school's board of trustees, effective April 1. In his new position, Stanford will provide administrative leadership when Leland's president is…

CBF of Virginia approves a new offering to fund ministries

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia has approved an annual statewide offering to help fund Hispanic ministries and new church starts in Virginia. The Shared Visions Missions Offering, to be promoted each year in April, was authorized at the CBFV's…

BGAV and Averett University leaders develop proposal for relationship

Leaders of Virginia Baptists and Averett University have agreed on a course of action following a March 17 meeting in Richmond to discuss their relationship in light of a gay pride week sponsored on the Averett campus by the school's…

Walking the faith

This Lenten and Easter season, churches across the nation-including many in Virginia-are offering labyrinths as a way for Christians to use the metaphor of walking, running or even crawling their faith as they move closer to God. By Marcia J….

Judge declines to reinsert Schiavo feeding tube

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congress' extraordinary attempt to keep Terri Schiavo alive has failed, at least temporarily. U.S. District Judge James Whittemore denied an emergency request March 22 from Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of the brain-damaged Florida woman, to reinsert…

Supreme Court hears arguments on inmate religious rights

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the question of whether a federal law designed to protect prisoners' religious freedom goes too far. At stake is whether Congress can pass laws creating special protections for religious practices among…

Central Baptist Seminary fills two positions with three people

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (ABP) — Central Baptist Theological Seminary has filled two cabinet-level positions — one with a husband-wife team who will serve as dean and the other with a former administrator of the seminary. Dean and Lisa Allen will…

CBF offers sabbatical grants to 45 pastors in 2006

ATLANTA (ABP) – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will award 45 sabbatical grants for pastors in 2006. Made possible by a $1.9 million Lilly Endowment grant, the Initiative for Ministerial Excellence program awarded 20 grants in 2004 and an additional 35…

Congress intervenes in dispute

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congress has now intervened in the emotional dispute over a brain-damaged Florida woman's fate. Doctors were scheduled to remove the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive March 18, unless Florida legislators pass their own bill aimed at…

Kerry, Santorum say they will reintroduce Workplace Religious Freedom Act

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Congressional supporters of religious freedom will try once again with an employees' religious rights bill they've been trying to get passed for more than eight years. At a Capitol press conference March 17, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.)…

Faith and Politics conference postponed due to Parham prolonged illness

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Due to the prolonged illness of Baptist Center for Ethics Executive Director Robert Parham, a scheduled conference on faith and politics has been postponed indefinitely. Parham was diagnosed late last week with acute leukemia. He is…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system