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VITAL SIGNS: The hardest issues we face

One of the most helpful insights I have gained in recent years for understanding the leadership culture of congregational life is the concept of managing polarities. Polarities are ongoing, chronic issues that are unavoidable and unsolvable. They are the hardest…

Baptist disaster response in hurricane-stricken Northeast likely to continue into December

Baptist disaster response teams from the Mid-Atlantic have prepared hundreds of thousands of meals in the Northeast, and relief organizers said they expect recovery operations to continue into December in the region hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. An expression of…

Harlem churches attract European tourists to worship

Election blurring of US church, state separation draws complaints

St. Dorothy Day? Controversial, yes, but bishops push for canonization

With Petraeus, echoes of that other warrior David

The Church and the U.S. Marines

Recently I’ve visited several churches. I’ve noticed something in common about all of them, and it’s something that is disconcerting for an organization whose primary purpose is to help people have a faith relationship with Jesus Christ. Here’s my discovery:…

Grassroot campaigns and the Church

“The Kingdom of God is like a grassroots political campaign,” said Jesus, never. If I were a betting man (and I’m not) I would be willing to wager that had Jesus known about grassroots campaigning that’s exactly what he would have used….

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…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church