Church & People News for Dec. 2, 2004 S T A F F • C H A N G E S Randy Secrist, to Elon Church, Ruther Glen, as pastor. Greg McClellan, resigning as pastor of New Hope Church, Appomattox….
Bluefield basketball game brings charity
When Bluefield College and Bluefield State College renewed their basketball rivalry Nov. 29 in the Dome Gymnasium on BC's campus, local basketball fans were not be the only ones benefiting from the event. Thanks to a charitable component incorporated into…
BTSR receives bequest from South Carolina
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond has received an unexpected bequest from the estate of a strong South Carolina friend. The seminary received a $100,000 gift from the late Dorothy P. Peace of Greenville, S.C. Peace was a BTSR supporter during…
GUEST EDITORIAL: Pilgrims
Letters
Living the legacy
Heritage column for Dec. 2, 2004 In 1900 William E. Hatcher, the noted minister and founder of Fork Union Military Academy, enrolled in his school a 15-year-old Chinese boy named Ah Fong Yeung. Robert E. Chambers, a Virginian who headed…
India surprises
Think you know India? If your impressions come from old National Geographics, you need to update your mental file about a country that produces more films than Hollywood and whose middle class is larger than the entire U.S. population. By…
Shall we gather at the river? Millions seek cleansing at Kumbh Mela
Dawn came almost unnoticed to the sacred river Shipra. Even the waking sun seemed overwhelmed by the scene unfolding at the water's edge. Hours before, drum-led processions of Hindu monks and mystics had arrived in the sweltering darkness, zealously…
A new wave
An estimated 4 billion people-about two-thirds of the world's population-learn through the spoken word rather than the written word. A new missions partnership is devising a strategy to plant churches among these “oral learners.” A “new wave” of missions outreach…
FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK: We don’t agree either
No part of the Religious Herald draws more comment than the opinion pieces we run on the “Voices” pages. It's one of the liveliest — and, to be honest, among the most stimulating — aspects of the Herald's ministry. The…
Racially-diverse faith coalitions tackle conservative issues
With the results of the election fresh on his mind, pastor Ken Friendly called a meeting of black and white ministers in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss forming a chapter of the Traditional Values Coalition. The African-American pastor of Lighthouse Christian…
Some clerics want values without conservative definitions
Twenty-four religious leaders have announced a nationwide effort to expand the political debate on values beyond abortion and gay marriage to incorporate subjects such as housing, education and crime control. The clergy, most of them politically liberal to moderate, have…