RICHMOND, Va.—Glenn Maddox will join the staff of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board July 1 as mission events coordinator, just as the organization’s summer camp programs get into full swing. Glenn Maddox Maddox, who has been involved in VBMB mission…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE Michael Cheuk, to University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va., as senior pastor, effective in August. Michael Wyre, to Lynn Haven Baptist Church, Vinton, Va., as pastor. Alex C. Gallimore, to Hester Baptist Church in Oxford, N.C., as pastor….
OPINION: A different kind of accountability
The church has always stressed holding one another accountable, but do we ever notice the attempts of non-Christians to hold the church accountable to a higher, Christian standard? The last day of classes at the College of William and Mary…
For impoverished children in Nicaragua, pencils are key
SOUTH BOSTON, Va.—In the United States pencils are not a big deal. But according to Jennifer Chappell, an inexpensive pencil can provide a child living in extreme poverty in Nicaragua an opportunity to receive an education. A summer mission trip…
Against all odds, woman pursues degree from Bluefield
BLUEFIELD, Va.—Bluefield College student Rhonda McCroskey has encountered more than typical challenges in completing her degree. In the midst of studying business ethics, analyzing research methods, and examining contemporary issues in pursuit of her bachelor’s degree in management and leadership,…
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship enters year of transition
FORTH WORTH, Texas—The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship looks forward to an “in-between year” characterized by implementation of a new identity statement and a search for a successor to retiring CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, the group’s incoming moderator said June. 22….
SBC resolutions address sinner’s prayer, gay marriage
NEW ORLEANS (BP) — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention approved resolutions reaffirming their convictions regarding the means of salvation and a literal Adam and Eve, while stating their opposition to rhetoric that equates gay rights with the civil rights…
As Cornerstone wraps up, Wild Goose Festival takes off
(RNS) Demon Hunter. Vengeance Rising. Payable on Death. Since 1984, these and other Christian heavy metal bands have been congregating every summer in a field near Chicago for the Cornerstone Festival. And for much of the 1980s and 1990s, it…
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship sessions to be webcast
FORT WORTH, Texas—Five main sessions of the upcoming June 20-23 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas, will be broadcast live online. Sessions can be viewed live or accessed later from archives at www.thefellowship.info/fortworth. The first webcast features…
Southern Baptist Convention elects first black president
NEW ORLEANS—One hundred sixty-seven years after forming over the right to appoint slaveholders as missionaries and 17 years after apologizing for the denomination’s racist past, the Southern Baptist Convention elected its first African-American president June 19. Messengers to the June…
EDITORIAL: And now in conclusion …
Editor’s note: When Julian Pentecost penned his final editorial upon his retirement after 22 years as editor, I doubt that he imagined it would also serve as a kind of eulogy. But as I read through many of his editorials…
Measured by ministry to ‘the least of these,’ how do Christians fare?
When it comes to judging livestock, some Baptists have a beef with sheep and goats. In Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus describes Judgment Day, with all the nations gathered around God’s throne and people separated into two groups—sheep on one side, goats…