Hollywood’s century-old repertoire of films offers a rich lode of Christian themes, say some observers who see value in mining for them. While the Oscar-nominated Tree of Life may be opaque, it’s “one of the most powerful treatments of explicitly…
Baptist House director praises new dean selection
DURHAM, N.C. — The director of the Baptist House of Studies at Duke Divinity School says he’s enthusiastic about the Feb. 13 announcement that Richard Hays is the divinity school’s new dean. Hays Freeman Hays, a professor of New Testament…
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…
Group seeks nominees for boards of BGAV partners
RICHMOND, Va. — Nominees to serve on the governing boards of 20 organizations which partner with the Baptist General Association of Virginia are being sought by the BGAV’s committee on boards and committees. In addition, the nominating committee is seeking…
Campus minister dies following battle with cancer
RICHMOND, Va. — Melissa Cheliras, Baptist campus minister at the University of Richmond, died Feb. 10, following a four-month battle with esophageal cancer. She was 33. Cheliras had been part-time collegiate minister at UR since last summer. She also served…
Criticism of contraceptive coverage policy grows
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new policy requiring some religious institutions to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives has drawn additional criticism, this time from both the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and — in a rare display of disagreement…
Criticism of contraceptive coverage policy grows
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new policy requiring some religious institutions to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives has drawn additional criticism, this time from both the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and — in a rare display of disagreement…
Baptist campus minister named at Old Dominion
NORFOLK, Va. – Brett Baddorf has been named Baptist campus minister at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Baddorf, who assumed the post Feb. 1, had been serving as interm campus minister for the past 18 months. Baddorf will coordinate…