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Leesburg couple faces harrowing experience as hostages in their own home

LEESBURG — Looking down the muzzle of a pistol held by a stranger in your own home changes the day’s priorities. It certainly did for Bob and Frances Belote on Friday, July 10. Both in their 80s, they had just…

VIRGINIA BRIEFS

Virginia Baptists log hours in Louisiana. Since October 2007, more than 1,300 Virginia Baptist volunteers have helped with rebuilding efforts in and around Port Sulphur, La., which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Assuming an average eight hours of work over…

Looking for leaders: What’s a church to do?

When the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship held its general assembly recently in Houston, leaders documented a quiet shift that went almost unnoticed among the 2,000 people attending the annual meeting. For the first time, graduates of the theological schools that partner…

From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap

STAFF CHANGES • Melvin Bradshaw, to New Hope Church, Skipwith, as interim pastor. • Nabeel Qureshi, to Jackson Memorial Church, Chesapeake, as minister of students and singles. • Daniel Vanover, resigning as youth director at First Church, Appalachia. ORDINATION •…

Sharing the faith in harrowing circumstances

Leesburg couple faces harrowing experience as hostages in their own home

Looking for leaders: What’s a church to do?

Pastor: National Guard, hospitals were prepared for church-bus crash

SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — Both a National Guard unit that responded at the scene of a July 12 church-bus accident and the hospital where most of the victims were taken had recently received training for situations similar to what actually…

Leland Center moves into Baptist World Alliance building

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist seminary serving students in the region of the nation’s capital has moved in with an organization that serves as Baptists’ international umbrella group. The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has moved its…

Anti-gay church says God hates the world

TOPEKA, Kan. (ABP) — An independent Baptist church best known for picketing military funerals with placards proclaiming “God hates fags” and “God hates America” is going global. Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. — whose 75-member congregation is composed almost…

Researcher says hypocrisy not biggest obstacle to evangelism

A former seminary professor, Thom Rainer has led LifeWay Christian Resources since 2006. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — People who don’t attend church are not too bothered by what they view as hypocrisy in the church, but there are some…

Leland Center moves into Baptist World Alliance building

FALLS CHURCH — Baptists’ presence in this Northern Virginia suburb just got bigger. The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has moved its main campus from Arlington to Falls Church, where it is leasing two floors in the Baptist World…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear

Leesburg couple faces harrowing experience as hostages in their own home

VIRGINIA BRIEFS

Looking for leaders: What’s a church to do?

From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap

Sharing the faith in harrowing circumstances

Leesburg couple faces harrowing experience as hostages in their own home

Looking for leaders: What’s a church to do?

Pastor: National Guard, hospitals were prepared for church-bus crash

Leland Center moves into Baptist World Alliance building

Anti-gay church says God hates the world

Researcher says hypocrisy not biggest obstacle to evangelism

Leland Center moves into Baptist World Alliance building

Pro-Palestinian, pro-Israel symbols to be banned after British government backs NHS antisemitism reforms

Catholic Archdiocese Fires Prominent Exorcist After Unexpected Claim About Demons

Draft of King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ found at Virginia seminary archives

Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride

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What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear