Let’s tell a new story: Juneteenth and the Fourth of July

Note: This post is an excerpt from a chapter titled “Juneteenth” in the author’s forthcoming book, Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy, which will be published September 8 and is now available for pre-order....

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EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida celebrates recovery

Dear Jimmy, I don’t know what got into me. It all started about eight months ago. As I was passin’ by the television set there in the front room I had a notion to turn it off since there wasn’t…

TRENDING: New Zealand clues — Blending with the neighborhood

“Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10) After the Babylonian Exile, the people of God couldn’t simply re-install a ruling king. Israel was no longer large and in charge, the dominant…

VITAL SIGNS: Intervention

The award-winning reality show Intervention is about addiction and the extraordinary lengths it can take to face one’s unhealthy compulsions. Each episode chronicles the attempts by family members and friends to bring health to someone who is destroying their life….

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“In our era of creeping moral relativism, one of the best contributions of Christians in American culture has been that some of us still believe in objective truth and real right and wrong. But that rigorous moral code was all…

OPINION: Being careful with terminology

A week or two after the 2004 election, I was dining with some friends in New York when the conversation turned to religion and politics — the two things that you're never supposed to discuss in polite company. George W….

ASK THE ARCHITECT: Planning a churchâ€™s facilties requires analysis

Now we hit the runway! We have flown at 33.000 feet in understanding the critical importance of mission statement development for your church, and then a series of articles on master planning enabled us to take a helicopter view of…

Richmond Association churches provide summer program for children

RICHMOND, Va. — Calvin Birch’s 6-year-old son, Joel, was dressing one Sunday and asked his dad, pastor of the African Christian Community Church in Richmond, where they were going. “What do you mean?” he replied to his son. “We’re going…

Churches are filling stockings to support chaplain ministry in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. — There are many types of Christmas stockings. Most are familiar with the ones hung by the chimney with care, yet since the 1950s many churches around the state have stuffed red Christmas stocking coin holders to support…

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FROM THE PAST: The Civil War seen through articles in the Herald

Editor’s Note: Recognizing the unique opportunity we have to examine reports on Civil War events in our own publication, from time to time we are commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by reprinting articles that appeared in the…