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Taxpayer-funded By Dawn’s Early Light woos Trump’s evangelical base

Democratic presidents have targeted Christians and attacked religious freedom for decades, but President Donald Trump is making everything right, claims By Dawn’s Early Light, a taxpayer-funded movie starring Trump administration officials that praises the president’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian...

Former NAMB head praying for Obama’s defeat

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist Convention official told social conservatives at a weekend rally in Washington he is praying that President Obama is not elected to a second term. “I pray that a trumpet will announce the moving…

WMU of India’s new website enhances anti-poverty goals

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Woman’s Missionary Union of India has just launched a new web site, thanks to a collaboration with its counterpart in Virginia.The new site — at www.wmuv.org/wmui — is the latest joint endeavor in a year-old partnership…

Father’s warnings twice saved Japanese family from nuclear bombs

NEW BERN, N.C. (ABP) — Rieko Suganami Evans remembers the sky glowing strangely red behind a huge cloud and one little airplane flying out of the cloud. It was Aug. 6, 1945, and the Japanese city of Hiroshima had just…

SBC leader criticizes Obama on Israel

WASHINGTON (ABP) – The Southern Baptist Convention’s top public policy official called Barack Obama “the worst president of the United States that Israel has ever had” at a rally for social conservatives held June 3-4 in Washington. “The reason I…

Dreaming with God

By Bill Wilson I’ve made a transition in recent years in the way I think and talk about God’s will. For many people, the will of God is a mysterious, elusive and frustrating concept. Too often, we have made it…

Episcopal church to convert to Roman Catholicism

Olympics 2012: FIFA bans headscarves for Iranian women’s soccer team

Report Warns of Final Generation of Assyrian Christians in Iraq

Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ banned in Lebanon

HeraldBeat

TRANSITIONS ON THE MOVE Wayne McCarty, to Cowan’s Branch Baptist Church, Gate City, Va., as pastor. Matthew Hensley, to Huguenot Road Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., as associate pastor for discipleship, effective Aug. 1. Jimmy Dunn, now serving as minister of…

HERITAGE: The future of the past

For the next four years there will be many emphases upon the 150th anniversary of the Civil War; and unlike the Centennial in the 1960s, the emphasis often will include emancipation. The Centennial was marketed as a celebration and it…

EDITORIAL: Where arts and history converge

Never one to pass on an opportunity to mix business with pleasure, while traveling in Germany recently I visited the German village of Schwäbisch Hall. A quintessential German mountain town nearly 875 years old, it features narrow, winding cobblestone streets…

Eradicating DEI hasn’t made anything better

How Christian nationalism shows up in patriotic worship services

Dear Trump-supporting Christians, are you really OK with this?

‘Every Student. Every State’ campaign promotes school tax credit