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HERITAGE: Investments in the future

Norman Bennett’s earliest spiritual experiences were in the primary department at Orcutt Avenue Baptist Church in Newport News. At age 6 he memorized the 100th Psalm and received his first Bible. While in the junior department at First Baptist Church,…

OUT LOUD

“…[I]t says something about the character of religious life in this society when preachers, priests and other religious leaders will not address the profound and provocative proof that our character suffers from a cancer that glorifies white leadership — however…

SECOND OPINION: I wonder …

I wonder what church would look like if we took seriously the biblical instructions to “talk about [the Scriptures] when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get…

Churches and organizations spend day of service in memory of 9/11

RICHMOND — Seven members of First Baptist Church in Danville were installing shelving in the laundry room at the House of Hope homeless shelter on Saturday, Sept. 12. In Norfolk a team from Freemason Street Baptist Church were rebuilding the…

Bluefield College enrollment up 22 percent for fall semester

BLUEFIELD — Bluefield College began the fall 2009 semester with a 22 percent increase in new student enrollment and the highest new traditional student figures since the fall of 2006. Traditional new student numbers at BC — including new freshmen,…

Connecting the dots

The comment by Jim Wallis in your Aug. 27 edition is mean-spirited and over-the-top [Out Loud]. Let’s connect the dots. The March 12 Darfur editorial maligns former President Bush, but that editorial had nothing to do with him. The Jan….

FAITH DIGEST

Overseas Mormon missionaries won’t count. Mormon missionaries serving abroad will not be counted in the 2010 U.S. census, despite the hopes of Utah congressmen that the missionaries would be included, the Census Bureau said. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, has led…

Healing the sick

President Clinton’s health care reform bill went down to defeat in 1993, due in large part to the opposition of the Religious Right, and the political fallout helped usher in a Republican takeover of Congress and nearly crippled the rest…

Baptists offer ministry in memory of 9/11

Bluefield’s enrollment up

Healing the Sick: Religious groups fighting to prevent reform debacle

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The last time a president attempted comprehensive reform of America’s health-insurance system, it went over like the proverbial lead balloon — and conservative religious groups were prominent in the coalition that helped sink the plan. President Clinton’s…

Healing the Sick: Faith-based providers crucial to health reform

Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. DALLAS (ABP) — Faith-based health-care providers can lead the way in developing new models that emphasize wellness and prevention — and create accountable care organizations focused on the needs of patients and their families,…

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