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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Reflections on CBF General Assembly

It’s no secret that I’ve been a friendly critic of the apparent lack of clear direction afflicting the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in recent years. A challenging column of mine published in another Baptist news journal last year elicited everything from…

Thank you, Mrs. Duerksen

I’ve been reading through Calvin Miller’s memoir “Life is Mostly Edges.” Reading his experiences have given me a greater appreciation for the things I had to go through as a child and the way people have helped me through the…

New staffer will coordinate summer mission camp events

RICHMOND, Va.—Glenn Maddox will join the staff of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board July 1 as mission events coordinator, just as the organization’s summer camp programs get into full swing. Glenn Maddox Maddox, who has been involved in VBMB mission…

OPINION: A different kind of accountability

The church has always stressed holding one another accountable, but do we ever notice the attempts of non-Christians to hold the church accountable to a higher, Christian standard? The last day of classes at the College of William and Mary…

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Transitions ON THE MOVE Michael Cheuk, to University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va., as senior pastor, effective in August. Michael Wyre, to Lynn Haven Baptist Church, Vinton, Va., as pastor. Alex C. Gallimore, to Hester Baptist Church in Oxford, N.C., as pastor….

For impoverished children in Nicaragua, pencils are key

SOUTH BOSTON, Va.—In the United States pencils are not a big deal. But according to Jennifer Chappell, an inexpensive pencil can provide a child living in extreme poverty in Nicaragua an opportunity to receive an education. A summer mission trip…

CBF a candle in search of darkness

By Alan Bean I was a graduate student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville when the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship was founded in 1991. I left Southern Baptist life to become an American Baptist minister in 1994, and last…

Louisiana private schools teach Loch Ness Monster is real to debunk evolution

Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Jacksonville: Be ‘open’ to gays

Southern Baptists, gay rights and the freedom rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr.