2008 Archives

STAFF CHANGES • Ray Farrow, to Mine Road Church, Spotsylvania, as pastor. • Kevin Niles, to Antioch Church, Yale, as pastor. He previously had served as associate pastor. • Jonathon Waits, to Central Church, Church Road, as pastor. • John…

“Closing a church leaves the feeling, for some of us anyway, that we have failed in the legacy entrusted to us. But creating a means to train candidates for the pastorate somehow lessens the feelings of failure and provides a…

RICHMOND (ABP) — Virginia Baptist pastor and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pioneer Cecil Sherman has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Sherman, 80, sought treatment options at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston after receiving the diagnosis July 25 and exploring…

I am writing in response to your recent editorial regarding the lack of appointments to the Southern Baptist Convention from Baptist General Association of Virginia [“SBC continues its snub of the BGAV,” Herald, July 10]. The continued snubbing is neither…

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (ABP) — About 400 delegates to the Baptist World Alliance's annual gathering in Prague, Czech Republic, ended their meeting July 25 with approval of a major re-structuring of the organization's governing structure. Baptists from more than 60…

When I read about Aunt Ida meeting that hard Baptist [“Aunt Ida meets at hard Baptist,” Herald, July 24], it brought back so many memories of when I was a teenager in Alabama. I was about 14 when we moved…

One of the last places I expected to find an article about the demise of the honeybee was the Religious Herald [“To bee or not to bee,” Herald, July 24]. But it was a pleasant surprise! And I think the…

(RNS) A global conference of about 300 interfaith leaders concluded July 18 in Spain with a declaration that rejects terrorism and calls for a special United Nations session on dialogue. Calling terrorism “one of the most serious obstacles confronting dialogue…