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BGAV adopts $12.1 million budget for 2013, elects officers during annual meeting in Roanoke

ROANOKE — A proposed budget for Baptist General Association of Virginia ministries in 2013 which sparked wide-ranging debate for a month was adopted Nov. 14 without discussion or apparent opposition. The BGAV approved the $12.1 million budget and elected officers…

A Q&A with Carl Johnson, the Richmond layman who took the helm as the BGAVâ€™s president Nov. 14

Richmond layman Carl Johnson was elected president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia Nov. 14 during its annual meeting in Roanoke. Johnson, a retired denominational financial officer and a member of First Baptist Church in Richmond, answered a range…

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A spirituality of gratitude

By Molly T. Marshall Celebrating a college homecoming is an occasion for longing as well as gratitude. I returned to my alma mater, Oklahoma Baptist University, this past weekend to gather with the class of 1972. (My, they looked old!)…

Performing the business of ministry

By Jeff Brumley Pastor Tony Lankford had a relaxing-but-productive day planned for himself on Monday. His plan was to prepare the message he will preach this coming Sunday on Daniel in the lion’s den. “I was going to go to…

Chastened Catholic bishops told they have to reform themselves

Anne Lamott: My secret little prayer

Mormons help storm-damaged communities in N.Y., N.J.

Shorter’s exodus, a year later

For such a time as this

“Why would anyone want to go into ministry today?” I overheard this question recently, but I did not respond because I was not the person being addressed. As I thought about the question, however, I quickly decided that this may…

BGAV upholds church ouster

By Robert Dilday The Baptist General Association of Virginia has upheld a leadership committee’s decision to end the state association’s affiliation with a church that ordained an openly gay man to the ministry earlier this fall. In the opening session…

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