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Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

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WINN RECOMENDS

Falling Upward, Richard Rohr (Jossey-Bass) Rohr speaks of life as something that comes in halves. These halves are not chronological but rather postures toward living. In the first half, we’re busy making something of our life, pulling together our identity,…

OPINION: Finding our future in our past

Although it is often messier than our present and at times even more uncertain than our future, the past must never be forgotten. Where would we be today without such champions of Baptist life as Roger Williams, Walter Rauschenbusch and…

LETTER: Women proclaiming the good news

I noted with interest, in the Feb. 6 issue of the Herald, the listing of churches participating in the Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching by having a woman preach during the month of February. I salute all 19 Mid-Atlantic…

OPINION: Looking into Glass

When is having a repetitive song playing over and over again in your head for days not completely annoying? When it is the music of Phillip Glass’s opera Orphee. It is haunting and tragic with a spark of hope, beckoning…

LETTER: Obeying prohibitions against killing

One of the Ten Commandments says, “Do not kill.” I believe this has been revised in some later editions to, “Do not murder.” During the 14th and 15th centuries, those who disagreed with the Christian church were burned at the…

HeraldBeat

Transitions ON THE MOVE Morgan J. Browning, to Hillcrest Baptist Church, Ridgeway, Va., as pastor. Charity Roberson, to Sharon Baptist Church, Smithfield, N.C., as pastor, effective April 1. Skip Irby, to Big Island (Va.) Baptist Church, as intentional interim pastor….

HeraldBeat

Transitions ON THE MOVE Morgan J. Browning, to Hillcrest Baptist Church, Ridgeway, Va., as pastor. Charity Roberson, to Sharon Baptist Church, Smithfield, N.C., as pastor, effective April 1. Skip Irby, to Big Island (Va.) Baptist Church, as intentional interim pastor….

HeraldBeat

Transitions ON THE MOVE Morgan J. Browning, to Hillcrest Baptist Church, Ridgeway, Va., as pastor. Charity Roberson, to Sharon Baptist Church, Smithfield, N.C., as pastor, effective April 1. Skip Irby, to Big Island (Va.) Baptist Church, as intentional interim pastor….

HeraldBeat

Transitions ON THE MOVE Morgan J. Browning, to Hillcrest Baptist Church, Ridgeway, Va., as pastor. Charity Roberson, to Sharon Baptist Church, Smithfield, N.C., as pastor, effective April 1. Skip Irby, to Big Island (Va.) Baptist Church, as intentional interim pastor….

Baptist House director praises new dean selection

DURHAM, N.C. — The director of the Baptist House of Studies at Duke Divinity School says he’s enthusiastic about the Feb. 13 announcement that Richard Hays is the divinity school’s new dean. Hays Freeman Hays, a professor of New Testament…

Ethiopian baby finds a new home at Virginia camp

HARTFIELD, Va. — Steve and Niki Gourley met in 2003 while serving as summer counselors at Camp Piankatank, a Baptist retreat center near the Chesapeake Bay. Steve grew up in Newport News, Va., and had attended Piankatank every summer since…

BTSR just shy of $1 million campaign goal

RICHMOND, Va. — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is only $100,000 shy of reaching its $1 million matching gifts goal, seminary administrators announced Feb. 14, adding they expected the campaign to be successfully concluded. The “Opening the Door to the…