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From Virginia to Standing Rock Reservation is a road well-traveled

The Tipi Wakan (Sacred Tent) Mission in Cannon Ball, N.D. RICHMOND, Va. — The roads from Virginia to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North and South Dakota span more than 1,600 miles and have been well-traveled this year as Virginia…

European Baptist leaders ponder future of international seminary

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (ABP) — European Baptist leaders gathered in Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 1-2 to discuss the future of the cash-strapped International Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary is owned and operated by 51 Baptist unions and conventions that make…

BJC directors hear update on property search, honor Walker

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty will probably need to raise a little more toward its capital campaign before it can start building a proposed “Center for Religious Liberty” on Capitol Hill, the group’s directors heard…

Faith leaders urge ‘adaptation’ funding in climate-change bill

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Climate-change legislation pending in the Senate should include robust funding for impoverished people most vulnerable to the affects of global warming, according to a new faith-based effort launched Oct. 8. The DaySix campaign, sponsored by Faith in…

Father of dead Marine to appeal decision favoring Phelps protesters

BALTIMORE (ABP) — The father of a Marine killed in Iraq says he will appeal a voided $5 million judgment against protesters at his son's funeral all the way to the Supreme Court. "I'm just kind of laying low right…

The blind chaperone and the homeless woman

By Amy Butler Every once in a while, I’m shaken into the reality of my own inability to see clearly. Again. It happened a couple of years ago. In a moment of weakness, I had earlier promised offspring Sammy I’d…

EDITORIAL: How to treat your pastor’s wife

For the last nine months, I have had the great pleasure of serving the Kilmarnock Baptist Church as their interim pastor. They have recently called Matt Tennant who will begin Oct. 18. Matt and his wife have two young sons….

From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap

STAFF CHANGES • Doug Odle, to Green Valley Church, Lebanon, as associate and youth pastor. • Don Taylor, resigning as pastor of Ni River Community Church, Fredericksburg. • Joel Bradberry, concluding his ministry at Black Creek Church, Mechanicsville. • Larry…

Debt keeps families, churches from reaching potential

If Americans had followed biblical financial principles, they could have lessened — or completely avoided — the worst recession in decades, two prominent Christian money management specialists said. “Debt may not be a sin, but it is certainly a curse,”…

Some call for reclaiming the lost virtue of thrift

Some social analysts observe the United States in the past half-century has shifted from a Bedford Falls-like culture of small businesses and community-friendly savings and loan institutions to a Pottersville-style nightmare of predatory lenders and seedy businesses that target the…

‘Generosity’ may communicate in ways ‘stewardship’ misses

A 2,000-year-old incident continues to set the standard for what it means to be a generous church. The New Testament records the need: “Our Jerusalem brothers and sisters need our help.” And in the face of difficult financial circumstances, the…

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