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ASK THE ARCHITECT: April showers and blooming flowers

My favorite time of year! I am just like a little kid when more than 800 daffodils and tulips poke their heads up in my yard each spring. Every fall my wife says “Jim, don’t you plant any more bulbs this…

At JMU, emptying trash becomes sacrifical act for Baptist students

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Campus outreach events for Baptist collegiate ministries at James Madison University include a variety of different activities, and this year is no exception. To add to the variety and uniqueness of our organization, however, we have tried…

Richmond church marks 25 years of ties to nearby retirement center

Pictured are (left to right) Pastor Paul Lee, Rose Spradlin, Nellie Walters, Anna Lee, Anne Potts, Evelyn Wolcson, Brittany Csaky, Amy Kennedy and Martha Alvis. RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Boyles Group at Lyndale Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., and…

Youth at Smithfield church package 30,000 meals for Haitian relief

Students with some of the meals packaged. SMITHFIELD, Va. — Smithfield Baptist Church in Smithfield, Va., hosted a Stop Hunger Now event March 12-14 in conjunction with a youth missions emphasis, Youth Missions Coming Alive. Students and adults from churches…

OUT LOUD

“The church in the United States can offer a message of hope and reconciliation to a nation that is deeply divided by politlcal and cultural differences. Too often, however, we have reflected the political divisions of our culture rather than…

Caribbean Baptist Fellowship installs new leaders

MONTEGA BAY, Jamaica — The Caribbean Baptist Fellowship, one of Virginia Baptists’ international mission partners, installed William Thompson as its new president and Everton Jackson as executive secretary/treasurer during the organization’s General Assembly March 18-21 in Jamaica. The assembly of…

HERITAGE: Miss Eliza comes to Virginia

The telephone caller was a trust officer in an Atlanta bank. She was administering an estate and was attempting to find the proper home for a physical object, an old portrait which had special meaning to its deceased owner. After…

Church, retirement center celebrate bond

Smithfield youth work to stop hunger

Conservative Baptist activist Nancy Schaefer dead in apparent murder

CLARKESVILLE, Ga. (ABP) — Nancy Schaefer, a conservative Christian activist and former two-term state senator in Georgia, was found dead with her husband March 26 in their north Georgia home in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Nancy Schaefer…

The churches and sexual abuse

(Editor’s note: The original version of this column, published March 29, contained an assertion — regarding differences in clergy-sex-abuse scandals between the Roman Catholic context and the Protestant context — that many readers found unsupportable. The author changed the column…

Virginia Woman’s Missionary Union helps launch the first WMU of India

RICHMOND, Va. — Since its beginning in 1872, Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia has had a heart for those who needed to hear the gospel of Christ. But last month WMUV attained a new level of global partnership when it…

Republicans push through more unregulated funding for ICE and CBP

Trump admin defying court order on immigration access

What was there left to argue?

Beauty, ashes and the Southern Baptist Convention