The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia clarified its identity and function March 11 by adopting a “Re-visioning” document which will guide the organization in the future. The CBFV “is a network of churches and inviduals being the presence of Christ…
VBMB, BTSR, other launch network to raise next generation of pastors
The Virginia Baptist Mission Board and Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond have joined with more than 40 Baptist churches and organizations across the South to launch the Shiloh Network, a new cooperative effort to encourage and recruit young people to…
Church & People News for March 9, 2006
Staff Changes Steven B. Flowers, to Antioch Church, Yale, as pastor. Armand A. Jalbert, to Sedley Church, Sedley, as pastor. Wayne Collis, to Gordonsville Church, Gordonsville, as pastor. Curtis Faison, resigning as pastor of Newsoms Church, Newsoms. Jere Allen, to…
Church & People News for March 16, 2006
Staff Changes Thomas J. Ferrell, to Bethel Church, Woodford, as pastor. David and Judy Bailey, to Oakland Church, Gum Spring, as co-pastors. Wes Moore, to Liberty Church, Hopewell, as pastor. Keith Reynolds, to New Vision Church, Martinsville, as pastor. Roger…
Six tips for preachers
Another View for March 16, 2006 By Tom Ehrich Religion News Service Every weekend, bold men and women stand up in church and do something many parishioners wish they wouldn’t do: They preach. They stand inside lofty pulpits, behind lecterns…
It’s time we focus on our own sins
Another View for March 16, 2006 By Anne Graham Lotz Religion News Service When I attended the “The Hand of God in U.S. Politics” seminar at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the attendees seemed alarmed about the power…
Whether I live or die
Editorial for March 16, 2006 By Jim White We heard the words spoken over the past weekend. “A State Department spokesman reports that the FBI has verified that a body found in Iraq Friday morning was that of 54-year-old Tom…
What TFA told FDR
Heritage Column for March 16, 2006 By Fred Anderson In September 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a letter on White House stationery which was sent to a young minister in Toledo, Ohio. By happenstance, the minister probably received the letter…
Letters to the Editor for March 16, 2006
Methodist decision I recently read the article in the March 9 issue of the Herald regarding the United Methodist Church's general conference for 2012 not being held in Richmond due to the R-Braves name being racially charged. While I don't…
Aunt Ida shares a whopper
Editorial for March 9, 2006 By Jim White Dear Jimmy, Well have I got a story to tell you. Every year your Uncle Orley and his brothers get together for a big fishin’ trip. As they have gone several years…
Testing the three Cs
Heritage Column for February 23, 2006 By Fred Anderson Conscience, courage and conviction are the three c’s which are tested from time to time in the lives of men and women. Slavery was one of the great moral dilemmas for…
Friends
Heritage Column for March 9, 2006 By Fred Anderson Clergy and laity can be friends. W. Landon Miller and Vince E. Richards proved it. When Vince and Elsie Richards moved to Richmond from Fredericksburg in 1966, they joined Northminster Baptist…