LYNCHBURG — It’s the time of year when newspapers are heavy with back-to-school sales flyers and parents are found wandering the aisles of stores with school supply lists in hand. Getting children ready for school means finding each item on…
EDITORIAL: Before we take up optometry
Way back in the 1980s when I was a young editor of The Deacon at the Baptist Sunday School Board (now renamed LifeWay, of course), Connie and I had the profound privilege of having James L. Sullivan, retired president of…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • I. Everett Hughes Jr., to First Church, Elkton, as pastor. • Chad Whaley, resigning as pastor of New Salem Church, Culpeper. • Steve Emory, resigning as pastor of Stanardsville Church, Stanardsville. • Jim Newman, to Hunting Creek…
Razzle Dazzle brings new life to revival at Clifford Church
Above and at right, children prepare for the Jericho march during Razzle Dazzle. CLIFFORD — Clifford Baptist Church in Amherst County is abuzz following its annual revival services held the first week in August. Children joined in this year for…
Church finds energy in mission
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABP) — When churches fall on hard economic times, one of the first thoughts is often to reduce the amount they give to missions. A Kentucky Baptist pastor believes they should do the opposite. “I think churches are…
HERITAGE: Salute to Hargrave
On Sept. 15, 1909 — exactly a century ago next week — Hargrave Military Academy opened its doors to receive boys whose parents desired that they be educated in a Christian environment. From 1975-2007, girls were admitted as day students….
OUT LOUD
“It looks like Afghans are created by God to be killed by human machines.” NIAMATULLA The 30-year-old high school teacher from Kandahar, who like many Afghans used only one name, was speaking after a bombing in his city that killed…
Taking ownership of the call
Two years into a three-year strategic partnership with a church in Grenada, Manly Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington noticed a change in its members’ attitudes toward mission. “We took a team of 15 last year and 11 this year to…
Episcopal bishop defends ‘heresy’ remarks
NEW YORK (ABP) — The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church USA is defending a widely criticized sermon she preached at the group's recent general convention in which she labeled propositional Christianity a heresy. In an Aug. 27 column in…
BTSR graduates — with youth — return to campus to ‘lend a hand’
The BTSR graduates and members of their Charlotte team posed on the steps of a seminary building after a long day working on the grounds. (Photos by Lindsay Marsh) RICHMOND — The grounds at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond underwent…
From the ashes: A new Poplar Springs rises after devastating fire
RICHMOND — The group of beleaguered church members huddled together watching their church burn would never have believed that something good could come from so great a tragedy. But from the ashes of the old has sprung a beautiful new…
BGAV’s second vice president takes pastorate in North Carolina
FRANKLIN — Richard Childress, second vice president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has assumed the pastorate of New Hope Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. Childress Childress, who had been pastor of Franklin Baptist Church in Franklin, assumed his…