Nell Collins Thompson had flair. She exuded it. She could have patented it. Her own inimitable style was upon everything she touched. She used her flair in every phase of her life — her home, her classroom, her church work,…
Ethiopian baby finds a new home at Virginia camp
HARTFIELD, Va. — Steve and Niki Gourley met in 2003 while serving as summer counselors at Camp Piankatank, a Baptist retreat center near the Chesapeake Bay. Steve grew up in Newport News, Va., and had attended Piankatank every summer since…
TRENDING: The elderly become elders
Between the end of World War II in 1945 (returning scores of men to America) and the advent of the birth control pill in 1964 came the largest population boost in history, the famed Baby Boom. Sociologists call this the…
BTSR just shy of $1 million campaign goal
RICHMOND, Va. — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is only $100,000 shy of reaching its $1 million matching gifts goal, seminary administrators announced Feb. 14, adding they expected the campaign to be successfully concluded. The “Opening the Door to the…
OUT LOUD
“When you are so prohibitively in debt to one particular lobbying group, that is a great concern. And it will be a great concern to many Southern Baptists because we believe gambling is a scourge. … And we certainly don’t…
VITAL SIGNS: Worship at Gate A3
Every congregation needs to be engaged in a healthy conversation about worship. Hopefully, it is at the heart of your identity, calendar and thought-life. As you face the future, one powerful question you must wrestle with is: “Of what value…
WINN RECOMENDS
Falling Upward, Richard Rohr (Jossey-Bass) Rohr speaks of life as something that comes in halves. These halves are not chronological but rather postures toward living. In the first half, we’re busy making something of our life, pulling together our identity,…
OPINION: Finding our future in our past
Although it is often messier than our present and at times even more uncertain than our future, the past must never be forgotten. Where would we be today without such champions of Baptist life as Roger Williams, Walter Rauschenbusch and…
LETTER: Women proclaiming the good news
I noted with interest, in the Feb. 6 issue of the Herald, the listing of churches participating in the Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching by having a woman preach during the month of February. I salute all 19 Mid-Atlantic…