NASHVILLE, Tenn — Appointments — including a number of Virginians — to Southern Baptist Convention committees and nominees to serve on its boards of trustees have been announced by Baptist Press, the SBC’s news service. Two Virginians serve on the…
EDITORIAL: If only a vote would solve our problem
No one who has talked with Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt can doubt that he is a man who is deeply concerned about dipping baptism figures in the SBC. For the fourth straight year Southern Baptist churches baptized fewer…
Huguenot Road Church transforms sister congregation
RICHMOND — Last month the ministerial and support staffs at Huguenot Road Baptist Church were not in the office for three days — and it wasn’t spring break. On March 30-April 1 they could be found at a sister church…
Virginia Baptist chairs disaster relief network for North American Baptists
FALLS CHURCH (ABP) — Several Baptist denominations in the United States and Canada have established a formal disaster-relief network to coordinate efforts among the various groups, according to a May 13 press release from the Baptist World Alliance. Terry Raines…
Huguenot Road awarded grant by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
ATLANTA — Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond has been awarded an “It’s Time” Missional Ministry grant of $25,000 by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The grant will help fund the church’s partnership with the Hyaets ministry in Charlotte, N.C. Hyaets,…
Jim’s Blog
"The Yoked Team" is the title I have selected for my blog because living in relationship is at once the greatest blessing and the greatest challenge of human life. Of course, the more intimate the relationship, the greater the benefits…
The Yoked Team
BAPTIST BRIEFS
Alliance urges end to Cuba travel ban. The Alliance of Baptists applauded President Obama for loosening restrictions on American’s travel to Cuba and called for more reform during the group’s recent convocation in Charlotte, N.C. The Alliance welcomed the president’s…
British Baptists observe 400th anniversary
BOURNEMOUTH, England (ABP) — British Baptists marked the 400th anniversary of the founding of the first Baptist congregation in 1609 in an annual meeting of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and BMS World Mission May 1-4. This year's Baptist…
EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida visits the Holy Land
Dear Jimmy, Well, shut my mouth and call me a hymnal. Your old uncle and I actually made it to the Holy Land. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would actually step on some of the…
HERITAGE: ‘A persistent cuss’
Phil and Bernice Rodgerson are living in one of “the villas,” the posh new quarters at Lakewood Manor, the Baptist retirement community in Richmond. Her baby grand piano anchors one corner of their spacious living room and his study is…
OUT LOUD
“You're the only people who never leave Mass early.” Archbishop Timothy Dolan The New York prelate was explaining to inmates at Bedford Hills Correctinal Facility why he loves ministering to prisoners. (RNS/AP) “I respect the opinions of Americans who oppose…