By Ken Camp The women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s deeply affected Southern Baptist life, an Oregon State University women’s studies professor said during a two-day conference on how Baptists have shaped American culture. Ironically, feminism made a stronger…
BGAV budget proposal would reduce allocations in 2013
LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Baptist General Association of Virginia will consider in November a slightly reduced overall budget for 2013 which significantly decreases allocations for most of its partner agencies while increasing by about 6.5 percent funding for ministries of its…
African-American Baptists followed divergent paths toward goal of racial uplift
BELTON—The story of Black Baptists in the 20th century reflects the larger story of African-Americans’ quest for equality, historian Adam Bond said. African-American Baptists shared a common goal of “racial uplift,” but their approaches varied from social-gospel reform to a…
NEW: BGAV budget proposal would reduce allocations in 2013
LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Baptist General Association of Virginia will consider in November a slightly reduced overall budget for 2013 which significantly decreases allocations for most of its partner agencies while increasing by about 6.5 percent funding for ministries of its…
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JPS Torah Commentary (available via Logos) This multi-volume set provides an invaluable opportunity for Christians reading the Old Testament. The JPS commentary offers Jewish exegesis from the Tanakh (the Jewish name for the Hebrew Bible). This resource gives insight we…
OPINION: Rejoice
On the way to work one morning this week I was praying to God to let me hear his voice. I frequently get so distracted by all the other things in my life that I get fuzzy headed and feel…
OPINION: Signs we’re taking ‘no religious test’ seriously
The upcoming election will be an important one and certainly historic in at least one sense. In the 223 years of our republic, this will be the first time that no white Anglo-Saxon Protestant will appear on either ticket of…
HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
Transitions ON THE MOVE John Carroll, to First Baptist Church, Danville, Va., as pastor. Joe Edwards, to Gourdvine Baptist Church, Rixeyville, Va., as pastor. John Huelskoetter, to Beth Car Baptist Church, Madison, Va., as pastor. Aaron Brittain, to Talbot Park…
Allies or rivals? New book examines struggles in congregations between pastors and musicians
(RNS) — Eileen Guenther, the national president of the American Guild of Organists, reveals behind-the-scenes church struggles in her new book, Rivals or a Team?: Clergy-Musician Relationships in the Twenty-First Century. Guenther, an associate professor of church music at Washington’s…
Baptist ministers see online community as mission field
Teaser: Baptist ministers see both functional and missional value to streaming services and offering online fellowship. (ABP) — Jim Somerville pastors a Baptist congregation in Virginia that, thanks to the Internet, includes people living in Austria, India and Slovakia. And…
Motorcycle ‘thunder’ rolls again at Eagle Eyrie
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Despite threat of rain and the thickest fog in recent memory settling on the Skyline drive, 40 intrepid riders gathered at Eagle Eyrie for the third annual Thunder in the Hills motorcycle rally sponsored by the Virginia…
Pastors and musicians: allies or rivals?
(RNS) — Eileen Guenther, the national president of the American Guild of Organists, reveals behind-the-scenes church struggles in her new book, Rivals or a Team?: Clergy-Musician Relationships in the Twenty-First Century. Guenther, an associate professor of church music at Washington’s…