by David McCollum | Aug 18, 2009 | News
Something interesting and delightful happened out of a chaotic situation in Helena, Ark. Ben Newell, a field worker in the Together for Hope Project of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, had a stack of school uniforms to separate into individual packages and...
by David McCollum | Jul 26, 2009 | News
The justice element was already out there. The “sweet” was added when an idea sprouted over a lot of coffee and a lot of chocolate late one night. Thus, Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark., dedicated Wednesday nights during the summer to a Sweet...
by David McCollum | Jul 22, 2009 | News
A major stumbling block in addressing homelessness in this country is NIMBY. Not In My Back Yard. “But they are already in your back yard, everywhere, even in the best neighborhoods,” said Dennis Beavers, during a recent panel discussion at Second...
by David McCollum | Jul 3, 2009 | News
HOUSTON, Texas — A panel attempted to unravel several tangled strands from “Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism” during a screening of the award-winning documentary at the Baptist Center for Ethics luncheon at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Assembly July...
by David McCollum | Jun 26, 2009 | News
When Shannon Avra arrived in China in 2003 to pick up her soon-to-be adopted daughter, she concedes she was in “adoption la la land.” That attitude changed quickly. As Anna Lee was handed over to her in the orphanage, she suddenly noticed the baby was...
