This is the ninth in a BNG series of articles on Christianity and democracy that will lead toward the July 4 celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The series has been curated by Carol McEntyre, senior minister at First Baptist Church of...
THOMASVILLE, N.C. — It was a little late for Veterans Day, a little early for Christmas. But when Bill Dorrity arrived at the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina in Thomasville to give handmade wooden wagons to more than 100…
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…
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….
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…
By Amy Butler When Thanksgiving and Advent are back-to-back, per usual, there’s hardly time to clear the turkey off the table to make room for the Advent wreath before the first candle should be lit. Most years we scramble back…
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…
Back in the 1980s when the world was still trying to figure out how to get a handle on the pandemic of AIDS, I came home from work one day and had a letter from the American Red Cross. I…
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…
