By Bobby Ross Jr. My Top 10 bylines of 2011: 10. Funding on the decline for children’s homes across the nation. DUNCAN, S.C. – Southeastern Children’s Home cares for neglected and abused children on a 50-acre campus overlooking the Smoky Mountains. Boys row out in a boat to catch bass and bream in a spring-fed pond. A beekeeper teaches girls how to cultivate honey. The … Continue reading 2011 in review: My Top 10 bylines of the year
Leaving Rwanda: Breakaway Anglicans Break Away Again Dispute between African bishops and Anglican Mission in the Americas prompts U.S. leadership to leave body. Christianity Today online story published Dec. 7. An 11-year-old denomination that has prided itself on its submission to majority-world leadership broke away from that leadership Monday. Amid a dispute over authority, bishops in the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA) resigned from … Continue reading Leaving Rwanda: Breakaway Anglicans break away again
Interracial couples and Baptist ‘hierarchy.’ Published Dec. 1. A natural extension of couple’s love. Published Dec. 2. No discrimination based on creed? Published Dec. 6. Evangelical Pujols to the highest bidder? Published Dec. 8. Textbook example of balanced reporting. Published Dec. 10. In Lowe’s ‘backlash,’ a fair hearing? Published Dec. 13. Pod people: Albert Pujols, Macy’s firing. Published Dec. 17. ‘Messenger Angels’ flap media-friendly wings. … Continue reading December 2011: GetReligion
FUNDING ON THE DECLINE — Children’s homes: Still a core church ministry? (reporting from Duncan, S.C.). Page 1 lead. DUNCAN, S.C. – Southeastern Children’s Home cares for neglected and abused children on a 50-acre campus overlooking the Smoky Mountains. Boys row out in a boat to catch bass and bream in a spring-fed pond. A beekeeper teaches girls how to cultivate honey. The home’s residents ride … Continue reading With funding on the decline, are children’s homes still a core church ministry?
‘God didn’t do this’: Minister grieves slain wife, son. Page 1. In the midst of unimaginable tragedy, Les Ferguson Jr.’s faith survives. “God didn’t do this,” said Ferguson, preaching minister for the Orange Grove Church of Christ in Gulfport, Miss. “This was just evil.” Even as he clings to God, Ferguson can’t help but weep as he mourns his wife, Karen, and son Cole, 21, who … Continue reading ‘God didn’t do this’: Minister grieves slain wife, son
Faith. Family. Fastballs. 