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Churches, city preparing to make anniversary time of healing
NEW YORK (ABP) — As the calendar pages turn inexorably toward Sept. 11, New York City is preparing for a flood of solemn remembrance prompted by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack that claimed 3,000 lives and launched a…
Church hosts alternative to Perry prayer rally
HOUSTON (ABP) — A Baptist church will serve as host site to an ecumenical event formed in response to “The Response”—the prayer rally Gov. Rick Perry initiated at Houston's Reliant Stadium. Americans United for Separation of Church & State and…
Colleges, universities, pledge to interfaith community service
WASHINGTON (ABP) – About 200 representatives from college, university and theology school campuses visited the White House Aug. 3 to kick off a year-long program of interfaith community service. Announced in March, the President’s Interfaith and Community Campus Challenge invited…
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Gregory helps BWA promote better preaching
WACO, Texas (ABP) – Joel Gregory compares commenting on sermons to raising political questions at a holiday meal among extended family. Still, the professor of preaching at George W. Truett Theological Seminary shouldered the risky task of critiquing 24 sermons…
Appeals court rules against Forsyth County prayer policy
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) – A North Carolina county commission is expected to appeal a decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said its policy on opening meetings with prayer violates the Constitution. A three-judge panel voted 2-1…
‘Foster care saved my life,’ says resident
SALEM, Va. — Imagine that you are 10 years old when you finally find the courage to tell your teacher about some problems you have been having at home. Then your world falls completely apart. Samantha, who spent several years…
Pastor retires from church that was model for ‘The Waltons’
SCHUYLER, Va. (ABP) — 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. Schuyler Baptist Church Fordwick came to Walton’s…
New addition enhances ministry at Longwood, Hampden-Sydney
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…