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Study reveals Amish growth. A new study says the population of North American Amish has increased nearly 10 percent in the past two years, causing many communities to turn westward in search of new land. Conducted by the Young Center…

RIGHT or WRONG? Cremation

Our family cannot decide whether cremation is biblically acceptable. Can you provide some biblical reference points or standards? Cremation is an increasingly popular alternative to burial. Since it isn’t a traditional Christian form, believers can struggle with its biblical acceptability….

British Baptist minister jailed in Virginia on child molestation charges

FAIRFAX, Va. (ABP) — A British Baptist minister is being held in a Virginia jail on charges of child molestation. Robert Dando, senior minister of Worcester Park Baptist Church in Surrey, United Kingdom, was arrested July 24 in Oakton, Va. He is…

Evangelicals condemn church’s plan to burn Quran on 9/11 anniversary

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The National Association of Evangelicals has condemned plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., announced its plans…

Is the Tea Party unbiblical?

WASHINGTON (RNS) — When conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck warned church-goers to “run as fast as you can” if their pastors preach about “social justice,” was he also encouraging them to run from the Bible? That’s what some progressive Christian leaders…

Baptist teenagers among protesters arrested at school board’s meeting

RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — Three youth and one adult from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., were among six people arrested Aug. 10 for disrupting a meeting of the Wake County School Board in protest of the school district's…

Man pleads guilty to beating two elderly women at Ill. church

ANNA, Ill. (ABP) — A man charged with beating and robbing two elderly women at a small-town Baptist church last fall pleaded guilty Aug. 10 to two counts of attempted murder. Willis Bates Willis Bates, 46, of Anna, Ill., was…

BGCT eliminates 13 staff positions, reduces some to part-time

DALLAS (ABP) — Six Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board employees are losing their jobs, seven unfilled posts are being eliminated and a dozen positions are being reduced from full-time to part-time due to the state convention’s current financial…

Upheaval

By Bill Wilson Upheaval. That’s one of the nicer things we call moving. Our household’s recent move has been a journey into disorganization, disorientation and general discord. A genuine necessary evil. More than once during recent weeks, we vowed to…

The summer of Baptist discontent and hope

By Bruce Gourley During the summer months each year, Baptist groups in America gather to preach, worship, pass resolutions and reevaluate the mission and direction of their churches and denominations. In recent years, these summer convention gatherings have seemingly been…

EDITORIAL: World Congress 2010! A foretaste of glory

In this issue of the Herald, we have tried to accurately report what took place at the Baptist World Congress in Honolulu, July 27 to August 1. And, with the exceptional help of other New Voice* partners, our managing editor,…

HERITAGE: Summer lessons

Hatcher Memorial’s old church house sits along busy Dumbarton Road in the Lakeside community of Richmond. It is dwarfed by the grand Georgian sanctuary which replaced it in 1955. It is a little worn at the heels; but just as…

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?