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Eric Metaxas is wrong about American history — again

Eric Metaxas has a new book, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. He is not a historian, and while there have been any number of good books written by non-historians, Revolution is not...

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HERITAGE: At the ‘Free Church’

The people came from Middleburg and the surrounding countryside of Loudon and Fauquier counties. They came on a beastly hot Sunday in June and they filled the old “Free Church” building now occupied by the Middleburg Baptist Church. They sang…

VITAL SIGNS: Clergy and grief

A friend and I were talking a few weeks ago and she made the following statement: One of the hardest parts of long-term ministry is burying your friends. I buried a dear friend on Monday. It was all I could…

OUT LOUD

“If the new conservative coalition is going to be a governing coalition, it’s going to have to have a significant number of Hispanics in it. That’s dictated by demographics, and you don’t get large numbers of Hispanics to support you…

From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap

STAFF CHANGES • Brent Kimlick, to Franklin Church, Franklin, as pastor, effective in September. • Clarke Hawkins, to Hillcrest Church, Mechanicsville, as  pastor. • Lee Cooper, to Hunting Creek Church, Nathalie, as  pastor. • Tom Stocks, to Buena Vista Church,…

James River churches collaborate to feed the hungry

Volunteers from James River Baptist Association package meals to be shipped to the Ivory Coast to feed hungry children. DILLWYN, Va. — James River Baptist Association recently sponsored a Stop Hunger Now campaign to feed hungry people around the world….

A Baptist in a clerical collar?

By Eugene Curry Those careers that are part of what may broadly be construed as the “service sector” often involve some means of identification. Policemen sport badges, waiters don aprons and nurses wear scrubs. The idea is that such tell-tale…