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Mid-Atlantic disaster response teams on alert to respond to devastating Oklahoma tornado Print E-mail
By Robert Dilday   
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Baptist disaster response teams in the Mid-Atlantic have been placed on alert as they monitor devastation in Oklahoma in the wake of a massive tornado which killed at least 25 people, many of them children. The storm pulverized an Oklahoma City suburb, destroying homes and business.
 
Supreme Court to consider whether sectarian prayers at government meetings at odds with Constitution Print E-mail
By Robert Dilday   
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Supreme Court agreed May 20 to hear a case centering on whether sectarian prayers at the beginning of official government meetings violate the First Amendment — an issue which has roiled the governing and school boards of counties in the Mid-Atlantic for years.
 
R.G. Puckett, longtime Baptist editor in North Carolina and Maryland, dies at 80 Print E-mail
By Bob Allen   
Monday, May 13, 2013
Career journalist and champion for a free Baptist press R.G. “Gene” Puckett died May 12, months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Puckett, 80, worked as a Baptist journalist longer than any person in the 20th century. He was an editor in both Maryland and North Carolina.
 
County boards in Md., NC. challenged over official sectarian prayers, joining others in region Print E-mail
By Robert Dilday   
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Two more county governing boards in the Mid-Atlantic are under fire for giving preference to Christian prayers in opening official meetings. The two counties — one in Maryland, the other in North Carolina — join others in the region whose practices have been challenged.

 
Nominees for restructured CBF organization include leaders from Mid-Atlantic region Print E-mail
By Robert Dilday   
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Mid-Atlantic leaders are among nominees named April 4 to serve on three governing bodies created in a restructuring of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Also nominated was Washington pastor Kasey Jones to serve as moderator-elect, placing her in position to become moderator in 2014.
 
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