Editor's Note: This editorial includes two clarifying paragraphs (italized below) added after its original publication. This varies from the version in the print edition dated Sept. 3. By casting their votes Tuesday evening at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, delegates…
Baptist seminary in Prague, one of the first causes adopted by moderates, may move to Amsterdam
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (ABP)—Trustees of the International Baptist Theological Seminary—one of the earliest casualties of the theological dispute in the Southern Baptist Convention and among the first causes adopted by moderate Baptists in the Mid-Atlantic—have proposed relocating the seminary from…
Baptist seminary in Prague, one of the first causes adopted by moderates, may move to Amsterdam
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (ABP)—Trustees of the International Baptist Theological Seminary—one of the earliest casualties of the theological dispute in the Southern Baptist Convention and among the first causes adopted by moderate Baptists in the Mid-Atlantic—have proposed relocating the seminary from…
Baptist seminary in Prague, one of the first causes adopted by moderates, may move to Amsterdam
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (ABP)—Trustees of the International Baptist Theological Seminary—one of the earliest casualties of the theological dispute in the Southern Baptist Convention and among the first causes adopted by moderate Baptists in the Mid-Atlantic—have proposed relocating the seminary from…
Mid-Atlantic relief groups ready to respond to Isaac
RICHMOND—Baptist disaster relief organizations in the Mid-Atlantic were poised to respond Aug. 29 as flooding from Hurricane Isaac inundated wide sections of every Gulf Coast state. Relief organizers in Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia said no teams…
Baptist seminary in Prague, one of the first causes adopted by moderates, may move to Amsterdam
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (ABP)—Trustees of the International Baptist Theological Seminary—one of the earliest casualties of the theological dispute in the Southern Baptist Convention and among the first causes adopted by moderate Baptists in the Mid-Atlantic—have proposed relocating the seminary from…
Mid-Atlantic relief groups ready to respond to Isaac
RICHMOND—Baptist disaster relief organizations in the Mid-Atlantic were poised to respond Aug. 29 as flooding from Hurricane Isaac inundated wide sections of every Gulf Coast state. Relief organizers in Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia said no teams…
OPINION: Know thyself—An ancient-future challenge to churches
‘Know thyself.” This popular saying of the ancient world has been attributed to many Greek philosophers, including Socrates à la Plato and was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Probably a common proverb used for various reasons and…
Burn victims find support in church, community
MINERAL, Va.—Elk Creek Baptist Church in Mineral, Va., is like hundreds of rural churches scattered along the turn of the road in the Mid-Atlantic. Nestled in a wooded area near the waters of Lake Anna, this small congregation saw a…
Mid-Atlantic relief groups ready to respond to Isaac
RICHMOND—Baptist disaster relief organizations in the Mid-Atlantic were poised to respond Aug. 29 as flooding from Hurricane Isaac inundated wide sections of every Gulf Coast state. Relief organizers in Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia said no teams…
At MC2, volunteers staff more than 30 mission sites
LYNCHBURG, Va.—The Network House, a safe place for abused women and children, is just one of the mission sites where volunteers served July 23-27 during MC2, an annual mission event sponsored by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board at Eagle Eyrie…
Mobile grocery diminishes impact of ‘food deserts’
RICHMOND—Residents of a low-income neighborhood on Richmond’s Northside, where full-service grocery stores are rare, are getting access to nutritious food, thanks to a Baptist project that aims to reduce the impact of “food deserts” sprinkled across the city and much…