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To understand today’s SBC, listen to history

Across America this week, Baptist women are carrying a familiar weight. Some are pastors who have faithfully answered the call of God, only to watch the Southern Baptist Convention debate whether God possibly could have called them. Some are seminary...

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Church collects toys for flood victims

PORTSMOUTH — Rob Edwards, pastor of Cradock Baptist in Portsmouth, admits a recent mission project that resulted in the collection of over 750 stuffed animals began in an unconventional way — only possible by today’s technology. Children from Cradock Baptist…

Evangelicals look at future

SOUTH HAMILTON, Mass. (RNS) — Repentant for having spent a generation bowing at the altars of church growth and political power, concerned evangelicals gathered recently to search the soul of their movement and find a new way forward. That evangelicals,…

Muddy Creek celebrates 235 years

POWHATAN — Long before Facebook and the internet, electricity and televisions, and tractors and cars stood a small country church in Powhatan County. Founded before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Muddy Creek Baptist Church is known as one…

BTSR celebrates first homecoming

RICHMOND — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond celebrated its first homecoming on Oct. 16-17. Students mingle in Virginia Hall during homecoming activities at BTSR. Alumni from the classes of 1994 through 2009, current students, faculty and staff gathered to renew…

Leland sets enrollment record

FALLS CHURCH — The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has set a record enrollment for the fall semester. Led by an increase in master’s degree students and a record number of diploma students, Leland set an all-time enrollment record…

Mural enriches children’s ministry

SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — On a hot South Texas summer morning, parents and children stream into the Children’s Center at San Antonio’s Trinity Baptist Church for Sunday School. Visitors are greeted warmly, and children are directed to their classrooms: downstairs…

RIGHT or WRONG?

Younger generations in our church don’t seem to connect with stories of Baptist heroes who dealt with the moral crises of their day. So, how can we communicate the values upon which our forebears stood? My education, training and experience…