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Children are hungry tonight because of Lindsey Graham

Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. He died the way he lived — in motion, at full throttle, pressing some cause or another into the next news cycle. He had just returned from Ukraine, where he met with President...

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Morris Chapman to retire in 2010

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Morris Chapman, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, announced plans Sept. 21 to retire at the end of September 2010. Morris Chapman announces retirement plans to the SBC Executive Committee. Chapman, a…

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…

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

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…