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News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for February 7, 2008

STAFF CHANGES • Craig A. Sherouse, to Second Church, Richmond, as pastor, effective March 2. • Chuck Price, to New Beginnings Church, Powhatan, as pastor. • Jonathan Geldmaker, to Union Hill Church, Brookneal, as pastor. • Richard H. Pendleton, to…

Security of believers

NEW YORK (ABP) — One day after a shooter killed two sisters at Colorado's New Life Church, Pastor Brady Boyd told reporters the church had become a target because of its size and its notoriety. But the toll to the…

What should worshippers do if their church is attacked?

NEW YORK (ABP) — Last December, worshippers at a Colorado church lost two members to a murderous shooter. In 2006, a man entered an Oregon church and threw fuel during a Sunday service, intending to set the building ablaze. And…

Church security demands all hands on deck — but maybe not with arms

FORT WORTH — Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth has employed personnel to patrol its campus, escort women to their cars after dark and ensure buildings are locked since before Russ Hibner became the church's facilities manager seven years…

What’s next for New Baptist Covenant?

ATLANTA (ABP) — Fifteen thousand participants in the New Baptist Covenant convocation arrived in Atlanta Jan. 30 seeking unity in Christ and departed Feb. 1 wondering where their quest will lead. In the meantime, they demonstrated racial, theological and geographic…

No politics in celebration

Making good on his promise that the New Baptist Covenant celebration would not be political in nature, former president Jimmy Carter set the tone for the meeting in a news conference before the opening session. Asked by a reporter from…

EDITORIAL: Was the celebration a success?

I was asked by a friend at breakfast the morning after the New Baptist Covenant Celebration what three things stood out as having made the greatest impact. I thought back over the three-day meeting, and what follows are the three…

SECOND OPINION: Disciple methods need to change

I have known Roy Edgemon for many years and I can testify that nobody has a bigger heart for discipleship than he. Recently Dr. Edgemon sounded a clarion call for Baptists to change their methods of discipleship [“Time to revamp…

Axioms of religion

Exactly a century ago this year, in 1908, Edgar Young Mullins, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, published his landmark interpretation of Baptist faith and principles which he entitled The Axioms of Religion. Baptists in the pews and Baptists…

Du Mez, Jones and Bass say lies about California fires are portents of things to come

Hearing voices

What drove young white males to vote for Trump?

Landmark study documents religious faith of LGBTQ Americans