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Willing workers are drawn by passion, giftedness, calling

Tapping passion and giftedness — and an understanding of every job as ministry — may be the best way to find willing workers to fill those unglamorous and least-recognized posts in church life. Passion springs from a person’s gifts, according…

FIRST HAND: Veteransâ€™ return to Okinawa, Hiroshima sparks memories

Editor’s note: Recently Bruce Heilman, chancellor of the University of Richmond, joined other veterans who had fought in the South Pacific during World War II to revisit the battle sites. With them were a group of students from the College…

HeraldBeat

Transitions ON THE MOVE Bryon LePere, to Buena Vista (Va.) Baptist Church, as pastor. He previously served as pastor of Big Island (Va.) Baptist Church. Bailey Edwards Nelson, to Flat Rock Baptist Church in Mount Airy, N.C., as pastor. David…

EDITORIAL: The new China

Like the blind man who grasped the elephant’s tail and drew the conclusion that all elephants were like snakes, my experience in China is so limited that the better part of wisdom would probably be to refrain from comment. But,…

WINN RECOMMENDS

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, James Hunter (Oxford) In the early 1990s, James Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, coined the phrase “culture wars” to describe the…

HERITAGE: Trumpet of life

“Don’t call Shiloh! Shiloh is dead!” With those words there begins a story which is legendary in the annals of Virginia Baptist history. When the Portsmouth Baptist Association met in 1871, the clerk called the roll of the churches. When…

China Christian Council plans Bible exhibition in four U.S. cities

SHANGHAI — The China Christian Council — the country’s official Protestant organization of churches — is hosting a Bible exhibition in four cities across the United States this fall, beginning Sept. 28 at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church in…

Chinaâ€™s Christians are thriving, marked by both unity and diversity

SHANGHAI — At the appointed time, they entered: the ministers wearing clerical vestments and the robed choir singing “The Lord is in his holy temple.” As the organist transitioned from the call to worship to “Come, Thou, Almighty King,” the…

Virginia disaster relief agency hopes faith groups will adopt projects

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Department of Emergency Management is asking faith-based organizations and volunteer groups to adopt repair and reconstruction projects in Virginia to help with continued recovery from last spring’s destructive tornadoes. “We want to encourage Virginia Baptist…

Baptist teams renovate, repair facilities at Bluefield College

BLUEFIELD, Va. — Fifty-five members of Baptist churches from across Virginia and Tennessee spent part of their summer on the campus of Bluefield College on a mission to support their Baptist partner. The volunteers from eastern Tennessee and across Virginia…

KINGDOM VISION: Dreams and missions

Have you ever woken up from a night full of dreams and you just lay there and wonder, “What in the world was that all about, all those crazy dreams?” And you lay there and try to recall what it…

OUT LOUD

“Heliocentrism becomes ‘dangerous’ if it is being propped up as the true system when, in fact, it is a false system. False information leads to false ideas, and false ideas lead to illicit and immoral actions ….” Robert Sungenis Sungenis,…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?