News analysis by Bob Allen Heading into a presidential race in which taxpayer funding of abortion tops the Family Research Council’s “values voter” guide, author Jonathan Dudley suggested in a recent CNN religion blog that as late as the 1960s…
OPINION: What do God and Hurricane Sandy have in common?
At Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, classes were cancelled on Monday, Oct. 29, because of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy on the northeastern coast of the United States.The loss of lives is above 100, and the economic impacts of the…
OPINION: God alone determines proper life of the Church
Over the past several weeks the focus of many conversations has been on the decision of the executive committee of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board to exclude Ginter Park Baptist Church from fellowship because they ordained a man who happens…
OPINION: Ginter Park Baptist, the BGAV and the tie that binds
Ginter Park Baptist Church ordained a gay man as a minister in September. This is creating a stir among Baptist organizations in Virginia. The Richmond Baptist Association, on Sunday, Oct. 21, created a committee to study the association’s relationship with…
Election Day checklist: Photo I.D., reading material to endure long lines and for some — communion
As voters in the Mid-Atlantic head to the polls today, some Baptists in the region will make an additional stop — to participate in communion as a reminder that their commitment to Jesus Christ trumps political identity. In scattered locations…
Baptists in Maryland grapple with ballot items on casinos, gay marriage, undocumented workers
Voters in Maryland are not only electing a president today, but also are considering whether to expand casino gambling, legalize gay marriage and extend in-state college tuition to undocumented immigrants — a clutch of moral issues that has prompted soul…
Election Day checklist: Photo I.D., reading material to endure long lines and for some — communion
As voters in the Mid-Atlantic head to the polls today, some Baptists in the region will make an additional stop — to participate in communion as a reminder that their commitment to Jesus Christ trumps political identity. In scattered locations…
Communion alternative for election strife
By Jeff Brumley Kevin Glenn has become quite the buzz in Columbia, Mo., the past couple of weeks for publicly promoting what he says has become a radical concept in American Christianity: That devotion belongs first to God and to…
Mid-Atlantic response teams distributing thousands of meals, others begin recovery operations
Baptist disaster response units from the Mid-Atlantic initiated feeding operations in earnest over the weekend as organizers began turning their attention to recovery efforts in the still-struggling Northeast a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the region. Volunteers from North Carolina…
Mid-Atlantic response teams distributing thousands of meals, others begin recovery operations
Baptist disaster response units from the Mid-Atlantic initiated feeding operations in earnest over the weekend as organizers began turning their attention to recovery efforts in the still-struggling Northeast a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the region. Volunteers from North Carolina…
Mid-Atlantic response teams distributing thousands of meals, others begin recovery operations
Baptist disaster response units from the Mid-Atlantic initiated feeding operations in earnest over the weekend as organizers began turning their attention to recovery efforts in the still-struggling Northeast a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the region. Volunteers from North Carolina…
After four years as WMUV president, Ann Brown finds rich symbolism in collection of bracelets
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Nothing symbolizes Ann Brown’s four years as top elected officer of Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia like bracelets — in a wild variety of colors, shapes and materials. Brown, whose tenure as WMUV president ended Nov. 3,…