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Under pressure, D.C. shelter ends church-service requirement

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Prompted by civil liberties groups, a taxpayer-supported homeless shelter in the nation’s capital will no longer require its clients to attend religious services. “We’re pleased that the D.C. government will no longer be supporting such religious coercion,”…

Fresh Expressions to be focus of 2011 Virginia Baptist Pastors Conference

RICHMOND, Va. — Innovative expressions of churches in changing cultures will be the focus of next month’s Virginia Baptist Pastors Conference, set for Nov. 7 in suburban Richmond, Va. The annual conference — held each year in conjunction with the…

BGAV to hear Alan Hirsch, adopt budget, consider new relationship

RICHMOND, Va. — As many as 1,000 people are expected to gather in Richmond, Va., Nov. 8-9 for the annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, to be held in the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Alan Hirsch, a…

Missouri Baptists elect leader

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — The Missouri Baptist Convention's Executive Board has chosen John Yeats to assume the MBC's top post. Meeting in a special called session Oct. 13, board members elected Yeats, recording secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention and…

Group says IRS should investigate church for endorsing Rick Perry

WASHINGTON (ABP) – Americans United for Separation of Church and State asked the Internal Revenue Service Oct.11 to investigate whether a Southern Baptist pastor in the news for calling Mormonism a “cult” broke the law by posting on his church's…

Church cancels services, packs meals for hungry children

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — On an overcast Sunday morning in Richmond, Va., 500 volunteers gathered at Gayton Baptist Church to make a difference a half a world away by preparing healthy meals to feed 277 malnourished children a meal one…

Are you ill?

By Bill Wilson My grandmother often used a word to describe herself or other people. It was the word “ill.” She did not use it to describe someone who was sick with a cold or the flu. She used it…

Green as a cabbage patch

By Bill Leonard Forty years ago this fall I became pastor of First Community Church in Southborough, Mass. I actually started as their interim pastor and wound up staying four years. It was a great place for one who had…

Jeffress flap illustrates wisdom of ‘no religious test’

By Brent Walker We have been instructed over and over again of this folly: — In 1789, when in Article VI of the U.S. Constitution our nation’s founders declared “no religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to…

Anita Perry calls husband’s struggles a ‘spiritual trial’

Churches try to be accessible to people with disabilities

OPINION: Jeffress flap illustrates wisdom of â€˜no religious testâ€™

One would think we Americans would have learned our lesson by now about supporting or opposing candidates for office on the basis of their religious beliefs. Robert Jeffress’ recent endorsement of Gov. Rick Perry and criticism of Gov. Mitt Romney…

Except for white evangelicals, Americans have soured on Trump’s leadership

CBF approves $16 million budget, leaders challenge more mission

The Black Church was not meant to save America

Caner sues Truett-McConnell for wrongful firing