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Children are hungry tonight because of Lindsey Graham

Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. He died the way he lived — in motion, at full throttle, pressing some cause or another into the next news cycle. He had just returned from Ukraine, where he met with President...

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STAFF CHANGES Clarence “Whitey” Davis, to Sharon Church, Rice, as interim pastor. Tom Cribb, to Oakland Church, Roanoke, as interim pastor. RETIREMENT Al Peverall has announced plans to retire as pastor of Jackson Memorial Church, Chesapeake, effective Jan. 1. He…

OPINION: A Christian film critic’s conundrum

I was once reprimanded by a reader for suggesting Casablanca as a video alternative because the Humphrey Bogart character owned a bar. I remember my consternation over the fact that this man had dismissed this classic romantic adventure that salutes…

LETTERS: Not the way of Christ

The guest editorial “Kill or be killed” by David Gushee left me wondering — what was the point that Dr. Gushee was trying to make? Was he saying that we have crossed some line where it is now legitimate to do…

LETTER: Kill or be killed

I was a bit surprised to read David Gushee’s article “Kill or be killed” in the Religious Herald [Oct. 21]. The piece was well-written and thought­fully prepared, the kind of essay one might find in The Atlantic Monthly, for instance,…

HERITAGE: The laughing fit

There are few calamities as destroying to a public speaker than for the speaker or the audience to be stricken with a case of the laughing fit. Herein is the report of an outbreak in Campbell County.  Recently this columnist…

Faith of our (early church) fathers

(ABP) — The faith of their fathers doesn’t impress youth and young adults very much. But the faith of the early church fathers is a different story. And it increasingly is their story as a generation starved for stable and…

Proposal would nix N.C.’s giving options

(ABP) — A North Carolina Baptist leader will propose scrapping the optional funding plans that are part of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina’s budget, which would eliminate funding of causes popular among moderate Baptists in the state. Ted…

BJC receives $100,000 for lecture series

(ABP) — A Baptist historian and his wife have given the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty a large gift to establish a lectureship on church-state issues. The Washington-based BJC announced the $100,000 gift from Walter and Kay Shurden of…

County clears church’s housing project

A $38-million proposal by First Baptist Church of Clarendon in Arlington to develop an affordable housing complex was approved Oct. 23 by the Arlington County board. The Views of Clarendon, a unique mixed-use church and residential development project, will create…