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HERITAGE: Getting ready for the Congress!

Virginia Baptists are making travel plans for the 20th Baptist World Congress, the great gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. Every five years the Congress is held in a different location around the world. In July, the Congress is in…

A focus on transformation

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Across the months of January and February, student leaders from Baptist Collegiate Ministries at Virginia Tech utilized the arts, interactive experiences and children’s stickers to engage their peers with the message of the transforming power of Christ. …

Trinity? There’s an app for that.

SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — Nils Smith recognizes he has an unusual title — pastor for college and online community ministry. But he suspects he may be one of the first of a new breed of ministers. Smith was serving on…

Google Thyself: Christian ethics and social networking

(ABP) — A student’s Facebook entry chronicles the painful details of a romantic break-up. Or describes an ill-spent weekend partying with friends. Or scathingly blisters someone who holds differing political views. Fast-forward a few years. That same student sits in…

GCR advocate to be nominated as SBC president at June meeting in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) — Georgia pastor Bryant Wright will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention, a Florida pastor announced March 12. The nomination of Bryant Wright, senior pastor of the Atlanta-area Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in…

American Baptist leader says denominations must retool for 21st century

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — Budget cuts and staff restrictions in a poor economy are only a short-term solution for America's religious denominations, says an American Baptist official. Michaele Birdsall, treasurer and chief financial officer for National Ministries of American…

ABCUSA leader says denominations must retool for 21st century

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) — Budget cuts and staff restrictions in a poor economy are only a short-term solution for America's religious denominations, says an American Baptist official. Michaele Birdsall Michaele Birdsall, treasurer and chief financial officer for National Ministries…

Federal appeals court says Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional

SAN FRANCISCO (ABP) — The same federal court that sparked controversy in 2002 by ruling that leading public-school students to recite the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional now says the pledge is an "appropriate patriotic…

The last temptation

(Editor’s note: This commentary is one in an occasional series of reflections on Lenten themes Associated Baptist Press is publishing during this season of preparation and introspection. Previous reflections we have published are linked to below the article.) By Brent…

Children at Chesapeake church learn how to minister

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Children in Action at Northwest Baptist Church in Chesapeake participated in Children’s Ministry Day on Feb. 20 by visiting families at the Ronald McDonald House in Norfolk. Northwest's children gather supplies before paying a visit to…

Fredericksburg minister struggles with answers to questions of social justice

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Sarah Bush wrestles with big questions: Why do homelessness, hunger and poverty persist in the United States? Where can people in any of those situations turn for help? Bush, who serves as minister of congregational development at…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war