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...
It should make any established American denomination panic: the dramatic increase in number of Americans leaving organized religion. In 2007, the percentage of the religious unaffiliated was around 15% and now that number is around 20% according to a new…
MECHANICSVILLE, Va. — Northside Baptist Church believes that families that play together will be strong and healthy, says senior pastor Jeff Scott. So the latest additions to its church playground facilities are not for children, but for senior adults. Nancy…
“We are a small band of Baptists struggling to complete our little church and to build up our Baptist cause in this community. We are now painting our church and giving it the finishing requirements as far as we can….
I have briefly reviewed the revised Baptist General Association of Virginia 2013 proposed budget: good for the budget committee and good for BGAV leadership. Thank you for hearing the wails and cries of disappointment. And thanks for Woman’s Missionary Union…
I take my hat off to Ginter Park Baptist Church for openly ordaining the gay brother in Christ Jesus. Get over it, BGAV. Jesus loves his gay brothers and sisters. We all have sinful behavior. We don’t take time to…
The fundamentalist church I grew up in once led the charge in kicking a church out of the local association because that church ordained a woman deacon. I had moved away by then, but if I’d been around I would…
RICHMOND — A task force of the Richmond Baptist Association will study the recent ordination to the ministry of an openly gay man by one of its affiliated churches and recommend a response to the association by next spring. The…
By Bob Allen Both praised and scorned for her take on controversial topics such as Christians and evolution and gender roles for husbands and wives, author Rachel Held Evans has rapidly become an expert in dealing with criticism. “As an…
By Bob Allen John Dunaway, 79, a longtime Kentucky pastor who helped name the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, died Oct. 18 at his home in Huntsville, Ala., following a long illness. A constitution offered at the inaugural CBF gathering proposed the…
By Mark Wingfield My maternal grandmother thought Billy Graham was a saint above all others. You simply could not say anything negative about the evangelist in her presence. She held the same regard for Jimmy Carter, because she considered him…
