Church & People News for Nov. 25 S T A F F • C H A N G E S Johnny Adkins, to Friendship Church, Coeburn, as bi-vocational pastor. Gil Diokno, to Fil-Am Christian Church, Locust Grove, as pastor. Darrell…
Letters to the Editor
Letters for Nov. 25 Support military personnel As Virginia Baptists observe the year-end holidays, giving thanks for the founding of our nation and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, we invite all citizens of our state and nation to join…
The rocking chairs
Heritage column for Nov. 25 In the great division of things that follows the closing of a family home, the rocking chairs were not the kind of pieces over which there would have been a tug of war. They were…
BTSR launches online certificate
Lisa Williams of Richmond wanted training as she prepared to start a ministry. Her church, New Jerusalem International Christian Ministry, wanted to start a ministry school. Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond wanted to take seminary education to the church through…
Speakers announced for next year’s 21-C
The courageous churches team of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board has announced the line-up for “21-C: Courageous Churches for a New Millennium,” a conference to be hosted at St. Paul's Baptist Church in Richmond on Jan. 27-29, 2005. Keynote…
Molly Marshall elected first female president of a Baptist seminary
Molly Marshall was elected president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas, Nov. 12, becoming the first female president of an accredited Baptist seminary. Marshall, 54, succeeds Thomas Clifton, who retired at the end of 2003 after 10…
Why I’m proud to be a liberal
Guest editorial for Nov. 25 By Henlee Barnette Henlee Barnette, a noted Southern Baptist pioneer in Christian ethics, died Oct. 20 at age 93. (See obituary in the Herald, Oct. 28). One week before he died, Barnette submitted this commentary…
N.C. Baptists will continue to fund moderate causes-for now
Messengers to the annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina voted Nov. 16 to keep the convention's four giving plans. But a move to eliminate the plan favored by moderates still looms as a possibility. Ted Stone,…
Tennessee Baptists vote to investigate colleges
Tennessee Baptists turned back an attack on “anti-Christian” teaching in public schools but agreed to investigate the biblical views taught in their three affiliated Baptist colleges. Messengers to the Tennessee Baptist Convention Nov. 9-10 in Sevierville asked the education committee…