By Debbie Perkins It is a fact of life. Each of us is aging. In fact, many are being given the gift of time. The average life expectancy of 47 years in 1900 has increased to 76.4 years in 2005….
Mission Board names Alexander to statewide collegiate position
Greg Alexander has been named to a key collegiate ministry position at the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Alexander, who has been director of Baptist collegiate ministry for the Illinois Baptist State Association since 1996, will become collegiate and young adult…
New WMUV assistant executive director encourages laypeople to minister
Laura McDaniel has never waited for permission to carry out ministry. The Lynchburg woman learned that lesson while serving the local church. “If God calls you to ministry, why wait to be trained?” she asked. “If we all waited for…
Church & People News for April 28, 2005
Staff Changes Whitey Davis, now serving as pastor of Sharon Church, Green Bay. Pat Narkinski, to Mount Hermon Church, Mineral, as pastor. Joshua Speight, to North Riverside Church, Newport News, as associate pastor. Dan Panter Sr., to Staples Mill Road…
Averett trustees acknowledge VBMB action, but are quiet on status of statement
Trustees of Averett University have acknowledged Virginia Baptists' approval of a jointly-developed statement which would dissolve century-and-a-half-old ties between the school and the Baptist General Association of Virginia. But Averett's trustees, who met April 15, have not revealed what action…
A favorite of the left and the right
Personalities for April 14, 2005 By Chris Herlinger When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 39, quietly strode toward Nazi prison gallows as the Second World War neared its end, he could hardly have known that 60 years later, his life, memory and legacy…
Armaggedon: Bad for the earth, but good for publishing
By Cecile S. Holmes Tim LaHaye believes it is yet to come. Hank Hanegraaff thinks some of it may have already happened during Christianity's first century. Their ongoing debate over the proper understanding of the fearsome prophecies in the biblical…
Many reasons to ‘Smile’
Another View for April 14, 2005 By Phil Boatwright Occasionally-it doesn't happen often-going to the movies serves our fellow man. Such is the case with an impressive little drama called Smile. The film begins in a rural Chinese village after…
NBC’s Revelations skewed, Left Behind authors warn
Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, whose Left Behind series made end-times theology a nationwide topic of discussion, have expressed wariness of NBC's apocalyptic mini-series Revelations, which premiered April 13. One of the series‚ main characters, Dr. Richard Massey, a skeptic…