Ronald C. Hall has been named president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Baptist Foundation Inc. Hall was elected, effectively immediately, by the Foundation's board of trustees at its semi-annual meeting May 5. He succeeds Timothy K. Norman, who…
A year later, views vary on gay marriage law
A year after Massachusetts became the first-and so far only-state in the country to legalize gay marriage, conservative groups said marriage still “faces grave threats,” while gay marriage advocates say their progress has been slow but steady. May 17 marked…
Bluefield students lead music ministry in Europe
Bluefield College has sent 25 students to Europe this month for a music mission project with the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Twenty-five BC students who are members of two music ensembles are traveling in Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic,…
Historical Society holds meeting during Anderson’s 25th year as director
The Virginia Baptist Historical Society highlighted a series of accomplishments for the year during its annual meeting May 10 at First Baptist Church in Richmond-a meeting that followed by only a little more than a week a celebration of its…
New KJV version of Bible tops best seller list
For the first time since its original imprint in 1982, the New King James Version of the Bible is in the top spot of a publishing best-seller list thanks to an evangelical initiative called the Million Bible Challenge. The challenge…
Senate moderates compromise as conservative groups cry ‘foul’
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A battle over President Bush's judicial nominees that threatened to destroy what little comity is left in the United States Senate has been defused — at least temporarily. And many of the religious conservative leaders who pushed…
Evolution references in IMAX film churn controversy
By Alexander Lane Rutgers University professor Richard Lutz goes looking for undersea volcanoes, not controversy. So the soft-spoken scientist is surprised to find himself on the front lines of the culture wars. Lutz was the chief scientist for Volcanoes of…
Brazilian pastor to lead BWA evangelism division
Brazilian pastor Fausto Aguiar de Vasconcelos has been nominated to lead the evangelism effort of the Baptist World Alliance, succeeding Australian Tony Cupit, who is retiring. If elected to the BWA's executive staff by its general council in July, he…
House approves stem-cell bill despite Bush’s veto threat
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A large, bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives has defied President Bush, Republican leaders and some conservative interest groups by passing a bill that would expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. But Bush promised to…