“As Muslims, when we see President Morsi, we feel just as the black people of the United States feel about Barack Obama. Here is somebody who looks like me, who represents me.” Ali el-Banna The Egyptian lawyer spoke to the…
HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
Transitions ON THE MOVE Steve Lalk, to Sandy Creek Baptist Church, Jetersville, Va., as pastor. Earl Jones, to Morningside Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C., as pastor. Joe Edwards, to Gourdvine Baptist Church, Rixleyville, Va., as pastor. Greg Robertson, to Calvary Baptist…
LEADERSHIP LINK: Churches adapt to make most of mid-week service
(ABP)—The look and feel of the Wednesday night church service is beginning to change as congregations seek to become more intentional and relevant to the communities they serve, ministers and scholars say. Those experts say they’re noticing the shift as…
OPINION: Waiting for the bullets
What went through her mind during the final minutes of her life? What feelings of terror flooded her heart as she crouched on the rock-strewn barren ravine bank just outside her native village of Charikar in Afghanistan? Powerless to prevent…
Bible museum planned for Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON (RNS)—A large-scale Bible museum will open in Washington, D.C., within four years, say planners who have been touring the world with portions of their collection. Cary Summers, chief operating officer of The Museum of the Bible, a nonprofit umbrella…
OPINION: It’s not about Sunday
We need to focus more on Sunday morning. We need to start a new worship service. We need to do more to get young people through our doors. These are the cries so often heard in the 21st century Baptist…
For this Baptist, ‘business as mission’ is calling
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP)—Some Christians live out their faith by ministering in churches, visiting prisoners or serving as missionaries. Jordan England does it by designing and selling furniture. “This is my calling,” said England, the 31-year-old owner and CEO of Industry…
LETTER: Praise for a mentor
I attended the annual meeting of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society on the evening of May 22. Nine days later Julian Pentecost died. The timing was somewhat providential for me because I was thinking about Dr. Pentecost on that May…
OUT LOUD
“Of course, Benny has always said that the ministry came first. Then he started to say that he was married to the ministry.” Suzanne Hinn The ex-wife of evangelist Benny Hinn was interviewed on the Christian Broadcast Network’s The 700…