BLUEFIELD, Va. — Bluefield College’s trustees began a process to name a board of directors for its new dental school during their recent annual fall meeting. Bluefield's campus is about three miles from the site of its proposed dental school….
HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
Accepted a new call? Been ordained? Church celebrating an anniversary? Mission trip or project that you would like highlighted on the HeraldBeat page? Send info to HeraldBeat editor Barbara Francis at [email protected] Christmas Music and Drama THURS., DEC. 6 Northstar…
Chinese Christian leader dead at 97
By Bob Allen K.H. Ting, an Anglican bishop prior to China’s Cultural Revolution who led a “post-denominational” re-emergence of Chinese Christianity in the 1970s and 1980s, died Nov. 22 after several years of poor health. Hailed by some as a…
Churches respond to Palestinian plight
By Leah Grundset Davis Two churches in the Washington, D.C., area are working closely with the Alliance of Baptists to develop a Christian response to the plight of Palestinians — a task they said has taken on greater urgency as…
Court revives Obamacare challenge
By Bob Allen The United States Supreme Court revived Liberty University’s lawsuit challenging Obamacare Nov. 26, returning the case to Virginia’s 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for consideration of issues not addressed when the high court upheld most of…
Trial delayed for accused molester
By Bob Allen A former Southern Baptist music minister charged with molesting five boys in the 1980s turned down a plea bargain Nov. 26 and now is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 28. That depends, however, on the outcome of…
D.C., Va. churches developing response to plight of Palestinians, as Baptists in Gaza struggle
WASHINGTON — Two churches in the Washington area are working closely with the Alliance of Baptists to develop a Christian response to the plight of Palestinians — a task they said has taken on greater urgency as a fragile ceasefire…
D.C., Va. churches developing response to plight of Palestinians, as Baptists in Gaza struggle
WASHINGTON — Two churches in the Washington area are working closely with the Alliance of Baptists to develop a Christian response to the plight of Palestinians — a task they said has taken on greater urgency as a fragile ceasefire…
HERITAGE: Remembering a namesake
In October this columnist visited Sanford Memorial Baptist Church at Brodnax, a small town east of South Hill, Va. The occasion was the church’s centennial. It was a grand and glorious celebration. Some church folks had even roasted a pig…
OUT LOUD
“You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that. I know I can’t. I’m not OK with what I’m learning, what the Bible says, and being on that television show.” Angus T. Jones The…
VITAL SIGNS: Tables and barns
In an excellent sermon, New York City pastor Alan Sherouse suggested that a most appropriate stewardship metaphor for a New Testament church is that of a table. He specifically referred to the round tables that his church uses seven days…
OPINION: For the BGAV, a Galileo moment
At its meeting in Roanoke, the Baptist General Association of Virginia experienced a Galileo moment. Galileo, you may recall, riled the church authorities of his day by taking seriously what he observed through his telescope and concluding that the earth…