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…
Leland sets enrollment record
FALLS CHURCH — The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has set a record enrollment for the fall semester. Led by an increase in master’s degree students and a record number of diploma students, Leland set an all-time enrollment record…
VBMB executive director John Upton explains board budgeting decision
John Upton, executive director of both the Baptist General Association of Virginia and the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, released this letter Oct. 15 following the Oct. 13-14 meeting of the Mission Board at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center: Dear Virginia…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • Jim Rizer, now serving as pastor of Burrows Memorial Church, Norfolk. • Matthew Tennant, to Kilmarnock Church, Kilmarnock, as pastor. INSTALLATION: Dan Stanley was installed as pastor of Berryville Baptist Church in Berryville on Sept. 13. On…
Interaction between science and theology beneficial to both, minister/physicist insists
ATLANTA (ABP) — There are paths between science and theology, and both can find value in interaction, noted author and professor of science and theology Robert Russell told an audience at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. Russell, founder and…
Only one church in three spiritually vital, study says
HARTFORD, Conn. (ABP) — A congregation’s health depends less on theology than methodology, according to a national study by Hartford Seminary’s Institute for Religion Research. Faith Communities Today 2008 paints an overall sobering picture of congregational life in America. Congregations…
OUT LOUD
“Our Founding Fathers had one thing in mind when they founded this country, and it was a Christian nation built upon the principles of Jesus Christ.” GEORGIA STATE REP. JAY NEAL Neal spoke at a rally protesting a school superintendent’s…
SECOND OPINION: What are top challenges facing Baptists?
The answer to the question, “What are the top challenges facing Baptists today?” depends on whom you ask, doesn’t it? Comedians might remind us that the call to have more children to buttress evangelistic efforts guarantees Baptist survival. Some Southern…