When court is in session, there must be some folks walking about in Charlotte Courthouse, Va.; but otherwise there are not many reasons to produce a crowd. There’s a drug store, a convenience store, a large public school, a few…
Students prove ‘Change Matters’
RICHMOND, Va. — Change matters. It really does. Just ask the hundreds of Virginia Baptist students who dropped the change in their pockets into 5-gallon water containers during student events this year and collectively raised $7,660.21 to support ‘clean water’…
Heritage Day celebrated at Lakewood Manor
RICHMOND, Va. — Heritage Day was celebrated at Lakewood Manor, a Virginia Baptist Homes community, on Oct. 22 with recognition of 25 long-time residents and 15 long-time employees. Among the 25 residents were four who are over 100 years old:…
Warsaw Church travels to Standing Rock
Warsaw team members seated (left to right) are Faye Wade, Erin Robertson, Holly Bryant, Katelyn Kuykendall, Katie Robertson, Shelby Orlando; second row: Curtis Smith, Lillian Ann Smith, Mary Sue McDonald, Ruth Jessie, Bobbie Dugan, Lylean Orlando, Katelyn Welch; and third…
Women are told they are God’s masterpiece during WMUV getaway
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Nearly one thousand women gathered at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center for fellowship, worship and learning at the annual WMUV Women’s Get-Away, Nov. 6-8. The theme for this year’s Get-Away, “Masterpiece in the Making,” was centered on…
SECOND OPINION: Will your congregation exist in 10 years?
North America has at least 350,000 religious congregations. Every year about one percent of them die. That means that 10 years from now, 35,000 congregations will no longer exist. Will your church be one of them? What is the “survivability…
Webinars to discuss Christianity, evolution
FREELAND, Wash. (ABP) — A self-proclaimed "evolutionary evangelist" will launch an online series of roundtable discussions for Christians to talk about evolution and the future of their faith on Jan. 15. The six-part seminar, titled The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity:…
Project preps international students to change home countries
WACO, Texas (ABP) — After devoting years to counseling countless young victims of sex trafficking in Southeast Asia, Sok (whose full name, like others in this story, is not being used to protect his safety) had grown weary and frustrated….
Project compiles oral histories from age of lynching
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Eighty years ago, an 11-year-old African-American boy walked in the dark on an Alabama country road, listening for the sound of his uncle’s truck and waiting for a promised ride home. But someone else came along,…
‘Dateline NBC’ to air story of murder of Baptist minister, wife
NEW YORK (ABP) — The story of the murders of a Baptist pastor and his wife and the ensuing three challenging decades for their two children who survived the brutal home-invasion robbery is scheduled to air Friday, Jan. 7, on…
Appeals court: Calif. cross on public land unconstitutional
(Editor's note: The original version of this story, published Jan. 5, had errors in the headline and the first paragraph. They both originally stated that the 9th Circuit panel had ruled the cross must be removed. But the court actually…
Q and A: Melissa Rogers on past and future decades in religious liberty
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Melissa Rogers is a veteran religious-liberty attorney and nationally recognized expert in church-state law. She currently is director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. She also serves…