Traveling on a U.S. State Department-sponsored program, a member of parliament and three religious leaders from Afghanistan met with Baptist Joint Committee Executive Director J. Brent Walker for a conversation about religious liberty at the BJC's offices July 20. The…
MID-ATLANTIC DIGEST
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Churches maintain Ministry on the Mall. Baptists in the District of Columbia are continuing their Ministry on the Mall this summer, as churches offer hospitality to the tourists that flock to Washington's National Mall. Area churches offer…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for August 3, 2006
STAFF CHANGES Ricky J. Jenkins, resigning as pastor of Pioneer Church, Richmond, to accept a position with the Good News Jail & Prison Ministry. Clayton Sweet, resigning as pastor of New Hope Chapel, Pulaski. He and his wife Wanda, who…
EDITORIAL: What can one Christian do?
Once again CNN, the Internet and the Spirit have driven me to my knees. It is not fear so much as frustration that creates in me an agony of soul. In addition to information supplied by the network news reports,…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for July 27, 2006
STAFF Carl Burger, to Mount Tabor Church, Keeling, as senior pastor. Roger Eunice, to Laurel Grove Church, Sutherlin, as senior pastor. Gary Tucker, to Shermont Church, Danville, as senior pastor. Michael Wright, resigning as pastor of Covington Church, Covington, to…
EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida’s garden
Dear Jimmy, I wish you could see our garden! I guess we've had just the right amount of rain because we've got an abundance. This morning I gathered a dishpan full of green beans and enough okra to fry up…
ANOTHER VIEW: Middle East peace: A Kingdom road map
The apostle Paul didn't know anything about Hezbollah or the Israeli defense ministry. But he did know something about hatred and hostility between irreconcilable people groups. And, more importantly, he knew something about the Kingdom of Christ. Everyone watching the…
South of the border
Several Virginia Baptists — including this columnist — found their way south of the border to Mexico City for the recent gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. In a sense, I once again was following in the footsteps of my…
ANOTHER VIEW: All noncombatants are equal
The Bush administration's failure to act decisively for peacemaking in the war in Lebanon sadly resembles its failure to act decisively for the poor in Katrina-destroyed Louisiana. Beirut deserves our nation's best efforts at restraining Israel's disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks…