The Virginia Baptist Mission Board's executive committee voted Jan. 16 to reorganize and expand its program of Capital Stewardship Services and has enlisted Reggie McDonough, former executive director of the board, to lead it. Mission Board executive director John Upton…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries
Staff Changes Lewis McElfresh, to Summit Point Church, Summit Point, W.Va., as pastor. Virginia Swaim White, to Arlington Church, Arlington, as permanent part-time pastor. Jonathan Wolf, to Dundas Church, Dundas, as pastor. Mark T. Holland, to Boulevard Church, Richmond, as…
Massachusetts legislators vote to send marriage ban to voters
A week after the state's highest court chided them for not acting sooner, Massachusetts legislators relented Jan. 2 and OK'd a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the only state that currently allows it. On the…
Muslim congressman uses Jefferson’s Quran to take oath of office
When incoming lawmaker Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, took the oath of office Jan. 4, he placed his hand on a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson. The Minnesota Democrat has drawn fire from conservatives, including a…
Bushes, Clintons, Obama, Graham among year’s most-admired
Americans must have politics on their minds. According to a recent Gallup poll, George W. Bush is the most admired man in the world. Sen. Hilary Clinton (D-NY) is the most admired woman. And Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), an early…
Tsunami effects still felt in India
Two years after a powerful tsunami devastated a dozen countries in south Asia, Virginia Baptists continue to minister to its victims in India. On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive earthquake beneath the seafloor off the west coast of the Indonesian…
Belmont names non-Baptists as controversy continues
Belmont University, embroiled in a lawsuit with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, has further angered some convention leaders by appointing non-Baptists to its board of trustees. The Nashville school announced, via a Dec. 21 press release, that eight new trustees had…
Tsunami effects still felt in India
Two years after a powerful tsunami devastated a dozen countries in south Asia, Virginia Baptists continue to minister to its victims in India. On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive earthquake beneath the seafloor off the west coast of the Indonesian…
Robertson predicts ‘mass killing’ by terrorists in U.S. this year
Pat Robertson said Jan. 2 the United States will face a massive terrorist attack in late 2007. The 76-year-old religious broadcaster made his prediction during a broadcast of The 700 Club, his news-and-commentary show. Robertson said that, during a recent…