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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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Most U.S. Catholics ambivalent about Latin Mass. Two years after Pope Benedict XVI eased restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass, more than six in 10 American Catholics have no opinion on the return of the traditional liturgy, according to a…

EDITORIAL: Before we take up optometry

Way back in the 1980s when I was a young editor of The Deacon at the Baptist Sunday School Board (now renamed LifeWay, of course), Connie and I had the profound privilege of having James L. Sullivan, retired president of…

From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap

STAFF CHANGES • I. Everett Hughes Jr., to First Church, Elkton, as pastor. • Chad Whaley, resigning as pastor of New Salem Church, Culpeper. • Steve Emory, resigning as pastor of Stanardsville Church, Stanardsville. • Jim Newman, to Hunting Creek…

Church finds energy in mission

FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABP) — When churches fall on hard economic times, one of the first thoughts is often to reduce the amount they give to missions. A Kentucky Baptist pastor believes they should do the opposite. “I think churches are…

HERITAGE: Salute to Hargrave

On Sept. 15, 1909 — exactly a century ago next week — Hargrave Military Academy opened its doors to receive boys whose parents desired that they be educated in a Christian environment. From 1975-2007, girls were admitted as day students….

OUT LOUD

“It looks like Afghans are created by God to be killed by human machines.” NIAMATULLA The 30-year-old high school teacher from Kandahar, who like many Afghans used only one name, was speaking after a bombing in his city that killed…

Taking ownership of the call

Two years into a three-year strategic partnership with a church in Grenada, Manly Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington noticed a change in its members’ attitudes toward mission. “We took a team of 15 last year and 11 this year to…

Leadership conference to offer assistance, getaway

ABINGDON — “An Encounter with God” is the theme for the Southwest Leadership Conference, scheduled for Oct. 2-3 at Highland Fellowship Church in Abingdon. Jim Henry, former pastor of First Baptist Church Orlando, Fla., and former president of the Southern…