“Take him out! Blow him up! Take him out! Blow him up!” the children chant during a vacation Bible school program at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. With eerie music looming over the scene, the viral TikTok video...
My husband and I sat down a few days before Thanksgiving to catch up with each other after putting the kids to bed. We had flown from August to December and sat looking back at the busy season of school…
By Jack Brymer The youngest of four children — three girls — born to a successful Baptist pastor and a wife who was equally dedicated to the congregation and denomination, Sarah Jackson Shelton suspects that being a pastor is part…
I am old enough to remember the politically conservative mantra of the late 1960s and ’70s: “My country, right or wrong.” I was young enough and naïve enough during those years to believe in the absolute moral integrity of America’s…
There is graffiti painted on the side of an underpass near my neighborhood. In large black and red colors it reads, “Art is Order.” Despite the irony of the tagger’s lack of respect for the order of law, I see…
Most of us in North Carolina realize that a significant shift has been taking place in recent years, a shift in the relationship between the church and the culture. Earlier in my life and ministry, the church sat at the…
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…
