Transitions ON THE MOVE George Theodore “Ted” Williams, to Mechanicsville Baptist Church, Gordonsville, Va., as pastor. Nathan Pruett, to Grace Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C., as pastor. Brett Dietrich, to Ironbridge Baptist Church, Chesterfield, Va., as director of children’s ministries. Danny…
Retirement center’s book sale to benefit ESL
RICHMOND, Va. — Lakewood Manor in Richmond, Va., one of the Virginia Baptist Homes’s four retirement centers, will hold its fifth annual Book Sale to Benefit Literacy, March 9-10 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The sale will be held in Lakewood…
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Transitions ON THE MOVE George Theodore “Ted” Williams, to Mechanicsville Baptist Church, Gordonsville, Va., as pastor. Nathan Pruett, to Grace Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C., as pastor. Brett Dietrich, to Ironbridge Baptist Church, Chesterfield, Va., as director of children’s ministries. Danny…
SIDEBAR: Thousands of children bear weapons in wars around the world, say international aid groups
International law prohibits anyone under 18 serving in armed forces, and considers it a war crime for anyone under 15 to fight. Nevertheless, according to Amnesty International around 21,000 children were exploited as child soldiers in Liberia’s civil war. It…
Shepherd’s Clinic provides service to working poor
BALTIMORE (ABP) — It’s Tuesday afternoon in what at first looks like a typical doctor’s office. Phones are ringing and copiers beeping. Then there is something different: laughter. Employees and patients are really enjoying themselves. Welcome to Shepherd’s Clinic, a…
Are mainline splits a new Reformation or old news?
NEW YORK (RNS) — There’s a popular saying in church-planting circles: It’s easier to make babies than to raise the dead. That principle applies to denominations as well, said Paul Detterman, who helped found the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians…
CBF proposals clarify identity, say Mid-Atlantic leaders
RICHMOND, Va. — A proposed task force report to be considered by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship this summer will clarify the group’s identity and more effectively mobilize grassroots involvement, agree CBF leaders in the Mid-Atlantic, who said the changes will…
CBF proposals clarify identity, say Mid-Atlantic leaders
RICHMOND, Va. — A proposed task force report to be considered by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship this summer will clarify the group’s identity and more effectively mobilize grassroots involvement, agree CBF leaders in the Mid-Atlantic, who said the changes will…
CBF proposals clarify identity, say Mid-Atlantic leaders
RICHMOND, Va. — A proposed task force report to be considered by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship this summer will clarify the group’s identity and more effectively mobilize grassroots involvement, agree CBF leaders in the Mid-Atlantic, who said the changes will…
CBF proposals clarify identity, say Mid-Atlantic leaders
RICHMOND, Va. — A proposed task force report to be considered by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship this summer will clarify the group’s identity and more effectively mobilize grassroots involvement, agree CBF leaders in the Mid-Atlantic, who said the changes will…
ANALYSIS: Re-branding a religion is hard to do, and not always successful, as SBC discovers
NEW YORK (RNS) — Did leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention hurt their missionary cause by opting not to change the denomination’s name to something a bit more, well, marketable? Maybe, but as the advertising executives of Madison Avenue here…
Repairs slow-going at quake-damaged cathedral
WASHINGTON (RNS) — It took 83 years to build the iconic Washington National Cathedral, but a rare East Coast earthquake last summer took just seconds to send carved stone finials tumbling from the heavens to the ground below. Now, six…