Al Mohler cozies up to Doug Wilson

Social media was abuzz this week with reaction to Southern Baptist Convention leader Al Mohler appearing on a podcast with Christian nationalist Doug Wilson. The mere fact of them being in conversation is the most notable thing, because what they...

Analysis Mark Wingfield

Featured

Des Moines apartment residents give bedbug lawsuit a push

Ala. gov.: Non-Christians ‘not my brother’

Faith, tradition, sewage meet in the River Jordan

New Miss America says God gives her a purpose

CBF leaders join in CCT response to King’s jail letter

ATLANTA (ABP) — Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal and Moderator-elect Colleen Burroughs have issued a historic letter in response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The statement responding to King’s letter emerged from the…

A year of ‘gracious uncertainty’

By Bill Wilson On the threshold of a new decade in our new millennium, there is a pervasive mood among God’s people: uncertainty. We hear it weekly from clergy and laity alike, usually around a specific concern regarding employment or…

Another gun massacre? Let’s buy more guns!

By David Gushee And so Tucson joins Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, the Pennsylvania Amish schoolchildren, the Long Island Railroad killings, the Wisconsin church shooting and others. They come upon us one after another. Who can even remember them all?…

From the Eastern Shore to the Cumberland Gap

STAFF CHANGES • Robert Brown, to Black-stone Church, Blackstone, as pastor. • Ben Sturgis, to Orchard Drive Church, Bassett, as pastor. • Kevin Wirt, to Pleasant Hill Church, Daleville, as pastor. • Matthew McCraney, to Rock Hill Church, Stafford, as…

VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Protests dropping of Herald subscription

I would like to protest. Since 1975 I have been a member of BGAV churches. I am a retired pastor, a member of Story Creek Baptist Church in Franklin County. I protest having to pay for a copy of the…

ASK THE ARCHITECT: Master plan criteria

Whether your church is relocating to a new site or expanding within your existing property, there are a number of master plan criteria to consider. The following will impact the shaping of your master plan — they are the specific…

VITAL SIGNS: A year of ‘gracious uncertainty’

On the threshold of a new decade in our new millennium, there is a pervasive mood among God's people: uncertainty. We hear it weekly from clergy and laity alike, usually around a specific concern regarding employment or finances or conflict…

OUT LOUD

“In hindsight, maybe it wasn’t the smart thing to do, you know. I should have been more careful where I left it, or whatever.” Sgt. Matthew Neu The officer in the Manatee County, Fla., sheriff’s office was quoted in a…