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Latino immigrants in Fredericksburg, Va., area find hope through LUCHAâ€™s after-school program

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — “Bridges of Hope is truly an example of how sharing Christ’s love does not depend on one’s language skills but on the ability to love and show compassion for others,” said Sue Smith, executive director of LUCHA…

Equal time with Al Mohler

By Miguel De La Torre Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., was quoted widely concerning the re-election of President Barack Obama. If afforded equal time, here’s how I would respond to comments attributed to him…

Cokesbury closures challenge seminaries

Two preaching giants and the ‘betrayal’ that tore them apart

Church members stand behind pastor battling brain cancer

4 killed in religious riots in central Nigeria

What do you get when you focus on conflict? More conflict!

I’m sure you have probably heard the old adage that says Baptists are like alley cats. You know what you get when cats fight an alley on Saturday night? More cats. Conflict is similar to this because the more you…

Seminaries provide help for pastors performing the business of ministry

(ABP) — Pastor Tony Lankford had a relaxing-but-productive day planned for himself on Monday. His plan was to prepare the message he would preach the following Sunday on Daniel in the lion’s den. “I was going to go to the…

WINN RECOMMENDS

How God Became King, N.T. Wright (Harper Collins) Believing that for all our study of the Gospels, we’ve obscured or forgotten what they are actually about, Wright sets out to re-narrate the story. Wright believes the Gospels fundamentally tell the…

HERITAGE: The cheerleader from â€˜Tussieâ€™

She was a cheerleader. She wrote her school’s fight song. And now she is cheering and promoting Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia. Pat Wright, the newly-elected president of WMUV, has long been a cheerleader and an active player in the…

LEADERSHIP LINK: Pastor compensation: A view from both sides of the pulpit

I am often asked the question, “What should pastors be paid? Isn’t it their obligation to forswear the material world and share the word of God?” Pastors do what they do because they love it. These servants of God are…

HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic

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] Transitions ON THE MOVE David Klinedinst, to Spurgeon…

Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children

Dan Patrick reiterates: ‘No separation of church and state’

Baptists know better than this

Judge bars Tennessee from revealing immigration status of sick children