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‘A miniature Christian bookstore’ in the palm of your hand

‘A miniature Christian bookstore’ in the palm of your hand

God may hold the whole world in his hand, but persecuted Christians can now hold an entire seminary library on a fingertip.

Megadeth star takes thrash metal -- and seminary -- on tour

Megadeth star takes thrash metal -- and seminary -- on tour

As new students wandered onto the campus of Concordia Seminary in Clayton, Mo., last September, they were joined by a genuine rock star -- David Ellefson a founding member of the legendary thrash metal band Megadeth.

A book by a Baptist who happens to be a former president

A book by a Baptist who happens to be a former president

Jimmy Carter was president for four years, but his new book is based on a role that he's held for nearly 70 years: Sunday school teacher.

 
HeraldBeat
By Barbara Francis, HeraldBeat Editor   
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
 
Two columnists join Religious Herald’s ranks
By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor   
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Two new regular columnists were added at the beginning of 2012 to the Religious Herald’s community of opinion writers.
 
Baptist pastor opposes N.C. gay-marriage ban
By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press   
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A prominent progressive Baptist congregation in Charlotte, N.C., on Jan. 29 weighed into debate over North Carolina’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Myers Park Baptist Church sponsored an adult forum to look at the possible impact of a May 8 referendum.
 
Richmond girl recognized for exuberance in missions
By Barbara Francis, Staff Writer   
Friday, January 27, 2012
Missions is part of Hannah Craft’s spiritual DNA, say those who know the 12-year-old well. A member of North Run Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., Craft has always shown enthusiasm for learning about and doing missions, say leaders of the Girls in Action group at North Run. Girls in Action is a Woman’s Missionary Union mission organization for girls in grades 1-6. Last year, Hannah was named Virginia's Outstanding GA.
 
Leonard installed in Baptist chair at Wake Forest
By Jim White, Editor   
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Amid academic pageantry, Baptist historian Bill Leonard was officially installed Jan. 24 as the first Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Named in honor of James and Marilyn Dunn of Winston-Salem, N.C., the endowed chair will provide an on-going Baptist studies faculty presence at the divinity school.
 
BC event features winter adventure, faith decisions
By Chris Shoemaker   
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Three hundred thirty-three youth from 12 churches across Virginia stormed the Bluefield College campus Jan. 14-16 for the school’s three-day extreme winter worship adventure known as Winter Blast. some 72 teens made professions of faith during Winter Blast, recently dubbed one of the fastest growing youth retreats in the region.
 
Children’s project empowers women around the world
By Herald Staff   
Friday, January 20, 2012
A hunger relief project initiated in 2009 by three children and their teacher in a mission education class at a small church on Virginia’s Eastern Shore has mushroomed into a multi-church endeavor which will provide thousands of dollars to help women in impoverished communities around the world achieve their full potential.
 
Burn victim in Jamaica reunites with benefactor
By John Crane, Danville Register & Bee   
Friday, January 20, 2012
It was a brief reunion recently for two women who share a bond reaching back more than 25 years. In 1985 Ann Wright was doing Christian missionary work on Jamaica when she first saw Charila Phillips. Four years old at the time, Phillips still had damage to her face from being scalded by boiling water. Wright was determined to help.
 
HeraldBeat
By Barbara Francis, HeraldBeat Editor   
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
 
VIRGINIA BRIEFS
By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor   
Friday, January 20, 2012
2012 Heritage Fellows applications open / High school students have essay opportunity
 
Raleigh, N.C., church administrator charged with theft
By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press   
Thursday, January 19, 2012
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) -- A former administrator at a prominent North Carolina moderate Baptist church was arrested recently and charged with embezzling more than $136,000 in church funds over a five-year period.
 
Supreme Court declines to review N.C. prayer case
By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press   
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Jan. 17 to reconsider a lower court’s decision barring a North Carolina county from invoking prayers in Jesus’ name at twice-a-month meetings of its main governing body.
 
MLK holiday a day of service for Baltimore church
By Alice Horner, Associated Baptist Press   
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Observing a national holiday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., members of a Baptist church in Baltimore took advantage of their day off from work for service opportunities as a way to live out the legendary minister’s dream. Jan. 16 was the first year for a Day of Service at University Baptist Church.

 

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Matthew's Gospel records the Great Commission Jesus gave his followers -- to make disciples of all nations. Christians in the United States increasingly are discovering "all nations" have moved nearby. Read more ...

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PERSPECTIVE 

EDITORIAL: Frappuccino Fellowships By Jim White
Some Christians suffer actual persecution, while American churches debate whether to serve lattes or simply Folgers in order to be more appealing than the church next door.

VIEWPOINT: A secret confessionBy Lisa Cole Smith
I don’t “get” a lot of visual art. This is a secret confession, however, so please don’t tell the members of our church or the arts center that is our ministry to the community.  

VIEWPOINT: Cultivating 21st century Baptist identityBy Alex Gallimore
It was a desk. I found it one day while digging through a forgotten back closet. That desk has become a powerful symbol of religious identity for me.  

VITAL SIGNS: Which parking spot for you? By Bill Wilson
As I work daily in congregations and with clergy, I have a growing sense that humility, as Scripture defines it, is a needed and often missing component of a healthy ministry.  

HERITAGE: Faithful teacher in a constant churchBy Fred Anderson
Ruth Marsh Dillingham is one of those rare individuals whom the rest of us identify as “a born teacher.” As the oldest of nine children, she likely did lots of practical teaching at home.  

TRENDING: Designer faith, part 2By John Chandler
George Barna identifies an increase in those who “make up God as they go.” These self-proclaimed believers claim the Christian label but shed their ties to traditional beliefs.  

WINN RECOMMENDS By Winn Collier
Recommended books this time include Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand; What Shall We Say: Evil, Suffering and the Crisis of Faith, by Thomas Long; and The King Jesus Gospel, by Scot McKnight.  


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