The recent spectacle of John Edwards's confession of adultery managed to be at once pathetic and instructive. While bearing in mind Lily Tomlin's observation that no matter how cynical one becomes, it's impossible to keep up, I can't imagine anyone…
SBC snubs
I read your editorial entitled, “SBC continues to snub BGAV” [Herald, July 10]. I would like to share with you a retrospective view from another side. I pastored Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Bristol during the 1980s. Its membership included…
OUT LOUD
“Look at the attention I get: It's because I throw a football. But that's what society values. That's not what God values. … He didn't invent the game. We did. I have some eye-hand coordination, and I can throw the…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for August 21, 2008
STAFF CHANGES • David Benjamin, to Winfree Memorial Church, Midlothian, as pastor. • Bill Hardison, to May Memorial Church, Powhatan, as pastor. • Lee McConnell, to New Hope Church, Chesterfield, as pastor. • Garrett Sheldon,now serving as pastor of First…
RIGHT OR WRONG?
I've been reading a lot about whether it is right or wrong to applaud in church. Is this just a cultural issue, or is there something deeper? The preaching of John Chrysostom 1,600 years ago troubled people of nobility but…
Faith groups push to increase minimum wage to $10 an hour
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A nonpartisan coalition of more than 90 faith, community, labor and business organizations has launched an ambitious “$10 in 2010” campaign to raise the federal minimum wage within two years. The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign…
Survey suggests ‘unchurched’ represent a pretty fluid group
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A new survey shows that “unchurched” Americans may be worshipping more, and “churched” Americans worshipping less, than many people might think. Numerous surveys track trends among “unchurched” Americans, but what does “unchurched” really mean? Does it mean…
Healing the sick
What distinguishes religiously-affiliated hospitals from their secular counterparts? Chaplains and charity care top the list, administrators of faith-based, nonprofit health care institutions agree. “Every morning at 5 a.m., a chaplain goes into our surgical unit, where he has the opportunity…
Faith no laughing matter, court says
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) — Making jokes and comments about a person's religion can create a “humiliating and painful environment” and be a form of on-the-job discrimination, New Jersey's highest court recently ruled. The New Jersey Supreme Court said remarks about…