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‘Big Bucket Brigade’ ministers to Africans

RICHMOND — When you think of a “bucket brigade,” you likely picture buckets filled with water and a line of people. On July 12 there was a “Big Bucket Brigade” at Hatcher Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond, but the 23…

Virginia Baptists’ John Upton nominated as BWA president

EDE, Netherlands — John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has been nominated as president of the Baptist World Alliance. If elected at the BWA’s world congress in 2010, Upton will begin a five-year term to…

Baptists on mission in the 49th state

MECHANICSVILLE — Bodenburg Butte Baptist Church is located in Palmer, Alaska, a town approximately 45 miles from Anchorage and 4,700 miles from Virginia. Last month a 14-member mission team led by Don Carter, a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church in…

Bluefield College cottages renovated

BLUEFIELD — More than 100 members of Baptist churches from across Virginia and Tennessee spent part of their summer on the campus of Bluefield College. The Baptist missionaries with skills from carpentry to cooking worked five weeks in May and…

Faith that sings: Hymns make theology portable

“If you know what hymns a congregation is most addicted to, you will be able to infer what, in Christianity, means most to that church.” When the late hymnist Erik Routley wrote that in 1982, worship wars in the United…

Baptists challenged to overcome racial barriers

NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) — If they hope to represent Christ in the world, Baptists must find a "better way" of relating than the racism that has marred their witness for most of the past two centuries, participants in a multicultural…

Carter planning return trip to Gaza

NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Aug. 7 he is planning a return trip to Gaza in an effort to focus international attention on what he describes as a humanitarian crisis. Carter, who sparked controversy in June…

Oklahoma governor says faith sustained family in loss of child

NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) — In rare public comments about religion, Oklahoma's Democratic governor told a Baptist gathering Aug. 7 that his Christian faith got him through personal loss two decades ago when an infant daughter died of a rare neuromuscular…

LifeWay says 1 in 8 church background checks finds record

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — One in eight background checks conducted on volunteers or prospective employees through LifeWay Christian Resources found a criminal history that might have kept an individual from working or volunteering at a church, the Southern Baptist Convention…

Democrats wooing of evangelicals

By David Sanders For years, Democrats and secular leftists accused the religious right and their friends in the Republican Party of blurring the lines between church and state and using God to achieve a political advantage. But more recently, Democrats…

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Belgian footballer set an example for men worldwide

Yes, the global refugee situation is a crisis, book contends

‘Big Bucket Brigade’ ministers to Africans

Virginia Baptists’ John Upton nominated as BWA president

Baptists on mission in the 49th state

Bluefield College cottages renovated

Faith that sings: Hymns make theology portable

Baptists challenged to overcome racial barriers

Carter planning return trip to Gaza

Oklahoma governor says faith sustained family in loss of child

LifeWay says 1 in 8 church background checks finds record

Democrats wooing of evangelicals

NEW BAPTIST COVENANT: Baptists challenged to overcome racial barriers

NEW BAPTIST COVENANT: Carter planning return trip to Gaza

As Jewish Republicans sour on JD Vance, many are rallying behind Marco Rubio for 2028

If the church doesn’t rise up for the disabled, who will?

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel takes on popes, delves into end-times theology

European Evangelicals Draw A Clear Distinction From Their American Counterparts

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Democratic Socialists’ wins rattle Democrats, rouse GOP

Republican-fueled Islamophobia cited as cause of more attacks

Belgian footballer set an example for men worldwide

Yes, the global refugee situation is a crisis, book contends