WACO, Texas (ABP) — The academic achievement gap between Anglo students and their African-American or Hispanic peers disappears when the students have intact, religious families, a new study says. William Jeynes, a non-resident researcher for the Baylor University Institute for…
EDITORIAL: What will the Hammond era mean for the BGAV?
The trustees of the North American Mission Board took an unprecedented step March 19 when they unanimously elected Geoff Hammond to be NAMB's new president. What makes his election interesting to Virginia Baptists is that he comes to the position…
Evangelizing
I read your editorial, “Remember evangelism?” in the March 22 edition of the Religious Herald with great interest. I certainly agree with the reasons you identified why so many Baptist fail to witness about their faith. I would even take…
Relational evangelism
As I read your editorial on evangelism in the March 22 issue, I commend you for calling our attention to the task of evangelism which is ours. We have certainly ceased doing a very good job with evangelism in our…
Sexual abuse
Thank you for your fine article “Some things can't be ignored” [Herald, March 8]. One of my own readers informed me of this, a lady who has been in contact with me for at least a decade. As the Baptist…
Pioneering in music ministry
Sixty years ago a young married couple, recent graduates of the prestigious Westminster Choir College and still in their 20s, arrived on the Virginia Baptist scene and almost immediately made contributions which had lasting results. Jim and Hattie Copeland came…
Assistant editor Elliott opens ABP’s New York bureau
NEW YORK (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press has launched a news bureau in the world's media capital, New York. ABP Assistant Editor Hannah Elliott opened the independent news service's New York bureau March 15, a little more than a year…
Dobson backtracks on remarks questioning Thompson’s faith
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (ABP) — Focus on the Family head James Dobson is attempting to deflect criticism for his recent comments that questioned the Christian faith of a potential Republican presidential candidate. Dobson, through a spokesman for the Colorado-based organization,…
Not just for Sundays anymore: papers rethink religion section
NEW YORK (ABP) — On March 24, the Dallas Morning News received the Religion Communicators Council award for the nation's best religion section. It was the 10th time in 11 years the News had won. Unfortunately for the News, there's…
Opinion: Formation and malformation in the body of Christ
The recent meeting of the Mainstream Baptist Network was the predictable celebration of “freedom” as the cornerstone of what it means to be Baptist. I will note only in passing the irony of a group that describes itself as “mainstream”…
Relationships key component to help immigrants, Baptist workers say
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (ABP) — Every afternoon, Felicitas does something she thought might never happen. She meets the school bus near her Virginia apartment complex to pick up her son, Carlos, as he returns from another day of elementary school. Carlos…
Evangelical leaders, Kennedy unite on immigration reform
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A bipartisan array of Congress members and evangelical leaders exhorted their colleagues March 29 on the moral necessity of immigration reform. Leaders from across the ideological spectrum — from Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)…