POWHATAN — Long before Facebook and the internet, electricity and televisions, and tractors and cars stood a small country church in Powhatan County. Founded before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Muddy Creek Baptist Church is known as one…
At first homecoming, BTSR welcomes alumni back for campus gathering
Students mingle in Virginia Hall during homecoming activities at BTSR. RICHMOND — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond celebrated its first homecoming on Oct. 16-17. Alumni from the classes of 1994 through 2009, current students, faculty and staff gathered to renew…
Leland enrolls record number of students for fall semester
FALLS CHURCH — The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has set a record enrollment for the fall semester. Leland students getting ready for class at Columbia Baptist Church in Falls Church. Led by an increase in master’s degree students…
Soul-searching evangelicals look toward nonpolitical future
SOUTH HAMILTON, Mass. (RNS) — Repentant for having spent a generation bowing at the altars of church growth and political power, concerned evangelicals gathered recently to search the soul of their movement and find a new way forward. That evangelicals,…
Portsmouth church collects stuffed toys for Georgia flood victims
Children from Cradock Baptist with some of the stuffed animals collected for the children in Atlanta. PORTSMOUTH — Rob Edwards, pastor of Cradock Baptist in Portsmouth, admits a recent mission project that resulted in the collection of over 750 stuffed…
Church collects toys for flood victims
PORTSMOUTH — Rob Edwards, pastor of Cradock Baptist in Portsmouth, admits a recent mission project that resulted in the collection of over 750 stuffed animals began in an unconventional way — only possible by today’s technology. Children from Cradock Baptist…
Evangelicals look at future
SOUTH HAMILTON, Mass. (RNS) — Repentant for having spent a generation bowing at the altars of church growth and political power, concerned evangelicals gathered recently to search the soul of their movement and find a new way forward. That evangelicals,…
Muddy Creek celebrates 235 years
POWHATAN — Long before Facebook and the internet, electricity and televisions, and tractors and cars stood a small country church in Powhatan County. Founded before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Muddy Creek Baptist Church is known as one…
BTSR celebrates first homecoming
RICHMOND — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond celebrated its first homecoming on Oct. 16-17. Students mingle in Virginia Hall during homecoming activities at BTSR. Alumni from the classes of 1994 through 2009, current students, faculty and staff gathered to renew…