FARMVILLE, Va. — Crowded conditions at the Baptist collegiate ministry serving Longwood University and Hampden-Sydney College have been eased with the addition of 870 more square feet in its student center. The construction project came in response to several years…
Pastor retires from boyhood church that was model for TV’s ‘The Waltons’
SCHUYLER, Va. — Matthew Fordwick was the young pastor of the Baptist church in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia on The Waltons, a popular television show created by Earl Hamner Jr. Fordwick came to Walton’s Mountain Baptist Church fresh…
TRENDING: New Zealand clues — Where to look for what’s next
A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. (Isaiah 11:1) In his erratic but occasionally illuminating book, The Future of Faith, Harvard’s Harvey Cox traces the beginning of the…
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HERITAGE: Chautauqua!
I first heard the word when I was a boy. My grandmother told me about the days when she was a young woman and “the Chautauqua” came and briefly flooded our hometown in South Georgia with culture. There were plays,…
KINGDOM VISION: Hope and anguish
There’s a story in the Bible, and if I were to present that story in a slide format, I would probably use two different slides. One slide would be of Jesus going with Peter, James and John up to the…
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Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community, Charles Marsh and John Perkins (IVP) Through his prolific pen, Marsh, professor and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia, has sketched historical accounts, a memoir and a…
Fostering isn’t for everyone, but everyone can play a part
BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — With more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, it's an issue that's not going away. Hishia and Rickey Conner have cared for more than 70 children in the past five years at…
Single father sees adoption, foster care as part of God’s plan
MIDLAND, Texas (ABP) — The Ewing family does everything together. They wash dishes, go grocery shopping and spend hours playing electronic games in the living room. "We've got to do everything together. If we don't, we won't have time together,"…
Not called to foster? Here are other ways to help
BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — Here are some small ways to help a foster-care family that can have a big impact. Offer to babysit—Babysitting foster children requires some time spent in training and certification, but it is a huge help to…
Common myths about foster care
BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — Buckner International foster-care professionals David Chandler and Samela Macon dispell some common myths about foster care. Myth: All foster children are emotionally disturbed and damaged beyond repair. There's nothing I can do to help them. Fact:…
November New Baptist Covenant II gatherings taking shape
ATLANTA (ABP) – Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., have all been nailed down for satellite downloads of a Nov. 17-19 New Baptist Covenant II anchored in Atlanta. Los Angeles and Philadelphia remain as…