RICHMOND, Va. — The Southern Baptist Convention is poised to elect its first black president this June, a move some black leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region praised as a step toward racial reconciliation among American Christians. Fred Luter, pastor of…
Mid-Atlantic leaders affirm possible election of Southern Baptist Convention’s first black president
RICHMOND, Va. — The Southern Baptist Convention is poised to elect its first black president this June, a move some black leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region praised as a step toward racial reconciliation among American Christians. Fred Luter, pastor of…
Mid-Atlantic leaders affirm possible election of Southern Baptist Convention’s first black president
RICHMOND, Va. — The Southern Baptist Convention is poised to elect its first black president this June, a move some black leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region praised as a step toward racial reconciliation among American Christians. Fred Luter, pastor of…
Mid-Atlantic leaders affirm possible election of Southern Baptist Convention’s first black president
RICHMOND, Va. — The Southern Baptist Convention is poised to elect its first black president this June, a move some black leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region praised as a step toward racial reconciliation among American Christians. Fred Luter, pastor of…
Foundation awards grants to Baptist partners
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Baptist Foundation has awarded grants totaling $82,500 to nine Baptist partners in Virginia to fund an array of projects, from prison ministry to youth programs. “The Virginia Baptist Foundation is indeed fortunate and honored to…
BJC’s Hollman challenges students to defend freedom
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. — A leading Baptist voice for national religious liberty brought the issues of religious freedom and the 2012 election from the capital to Gardner-Webb University this month. K. Hollyn Hollman, general counsel for the Baptist Joint…
OPINION: Cultivating 21st century Baptist identity
It was a desk. I found it one day while digging through a forgotten back closet at the small church I was serving in Midtown Atlanta. It was covered in a layer of dust, paint splatter and rat droppings. Lying…
TRENDING: Designer faith, part 2
Rugged individualism is the sea we Americans swim in. Our culture is about the rags-to-riches Horatio Alger, the pioneering Daniel Boone and more recently the iconic dissenter Steve Jobs. John Chandler Classic Baptist doctrinal distinctives of “the priesthood of every…
WINN RECOMMENDS
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) In 1943, Louis Zamperini planned to be preparing for the Olympics. Instead, he was shot down over the Pacific Ocean, enduring weeks adrift at sea, fighting off sharks, starvation and Japanese fighters reigning down bullets….