While the U.S. Navy has rescinded a regulation that restricted chaplains from conducting public worship outside of Sunday chapels, an evangelical claims the military branch is firing him for violating that guideline. A chaplain at the Naval Air Station in…
Carter, Clinton hope compassion agenda will unite Baptists across North America
Baptists from across North America will convene in Atlanta early next year to emphasize their compassion rather than the racial, theological and social conflict that has divided them for decades. Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton—two of the world's…
Virginia Baptist leaders join others for covenant celebration
Three Virginia Baptist leaders were among the more than 80 leaders from 40 Baptist organizations in the United States and Canada who met Jan. 9 in Atlanta. John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia; Jerry Jones,…
SBC officials reject Carter, but not all Southern Baptists agree
Southern Baptist officials harshly rejected Jimmy Carter's effort to unite all Baptists in North America under a compassion agenda, calling the ambitious plan “voodoo ecumenism” and a thinly veiled Democratic strategy to woo values voters. But other Southern Baptists, including…
Belmont subpoenas church records in Tennessee lawsuit
Belmont University has subpoenaed giving records from 100 Tennessee Baptist Convention churches in an ongoing legal dispute with the convention over control of the school's assets. The subpoena asks for records on churches' giving to the Cooperative Program between 1951,…
Fires investigated at N.C. churches
“Suspicious” fires damaged two Baptist churches and a break-in was discovered at a third in Greenville, N.C., the night of Jan. 13. Memorial Baptist Church and Unity Free Will Baptist, located near each other in the city about 50 miles…
Day will celebrate preaching of women
Baptist Women in Ministry is inviting all churches to participate in the first of what it hopes will be an annual Martha Stearns Marshall Day of Preaching. “On the first Sunday of February each year, we will join together to…
Theological education
Thank you for your editorial suggesting that there are ways to provide theological education in a more effective and efficient mannger for Virginia Baptists [“Theological opportunity?” Herald, Dec. 14]. Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond would be eager to discuss cooperative…
One of a kind
According to Chris McPeek, youth minister at Columbia Baptist in Falls Church and student at the John Leland Center for Theological Studies, his school is unique. “What I find really different is the international flavor of the students and faculty….