GALVESTON, Texas — A team of Virginia college students used their winter break to make a couple of Galveston homes a bit more livable. Virginia Baptist students made this house in Galveston a bit more livable. More than a year…
Baptist Center seeks applicants for Heritage Fellows program
RICHMOND, Va. — The Center for Baptist Heritage and Studies is seeking applicants for the 2010-11 class of Heritage Fellows, a program of intensive training in Baptist history and heritage. The program is open to Baptist students who will be…
Martin Marty offers no easy predictions for Baptists’ next 400 years
WACO, Texas — Nobody can predict with certainty what the next 400 years hold for Baptists — or for any religious denomination, church historian Martin Marty told a gathering at Baylor University. But Marty, professor emeritus at the University of…
FAITH DIGEST
Sydney bishop dresses down casual clergy. An Anglican bishop in Australia’s largest city has dressed down his clergy over their lack of sartorial style. “Why are our clergy the worst dressed people in church?” wrote Bishop Robert Forsyth of South…
ASK THE ARCHITECT: Forming a building committee
Let’s continue the thought of last month’s article in which we established the commitment to follow God’s lead first and then identified building program generators. Simply stated, such a program begins when we recognize needs. Any one or more indicators…
Faced with scandal, Haggard’s wife tells why she stayed
Under similar circumstances, many women would have kicked their husbands to the couch. Or the curb. But for Gayle Haggard, the gay sex-and-drug scandal that toppled her husband’s ministry was simply “the mountain we had to go over.” And now,…
EDITORIAL: Opening yourself to the counsel of others
Every pastor goes through rough patches from time to time. It’s part of the challenge of leadership. Even Moses’ congregation occasionally complained about the direction they were taking and voiced their displeasure with the person responsible. There is a certain…
Baptist church damaged in Iraq explosion
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — First Baptist Church of Baghdad, Iraq, was damaged by an explosion Jan. 26 less than a half mile from the church building, according to the Baptist World Alliance. The incident occurred when a suicide bomber drove…
HERITAGE: The last lap
Betty Pugh Mills, his pastor at Grace Baptist Church of Richmond and his chief softball catcher, called him “the king of narrative preaching.” Claude Dollins, a former colleague on the Virginia Baptist Mission Board staff and a long-time friend, called…
SECOND OPINION: How do we best help Haiti recover?
How that Haiti is completely wrecked, how does anyone fix it? With tremors still shaking the island nation that has never recovered from its own birth pains, the world’s nations are sending tons of food and barrels of water to…
OUT LOUD
“I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe. I’ve always been very convicted of [his views on abortion] because that’s the reason I’m here,…
Puglisi unexpectedly steps down as VI president; board of trustees announces personnel reductions
BRISTOL, Va. — In a move that appeared sudden to outsiders, on Jan. 25 trustees of Virginia Intermont College called for president Michael J. Puglisi to step down. And in what college administrators and trustees said was unrelated to the…