No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...

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Why the “nones” are leaving church, but not God

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…

Congregation takes adult exercise seriously as it adds new equipment to its community playground

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…

HERITAGE: Finding a solution to funding ministry

“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….

OPINION: Good for the BGAV budget committee

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…

LETTER: As Jesus said, love one another

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…

OPINION: On priests, autonomy and the drawing of lines

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 Baptist Association creates task force to study ordination of gay man by affiliated church

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…

Author offers tips on handling critics

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…

Longtime pastor John Dunaway dies

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…

South Carolina diocese defecting from the Episcopal Church

Dinesh D’Souza resigns as Christian college chief in face of questions about marriage