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Thanks from Texas Baptists

On behalf of a grateful community and church, thank you for your ministry to the folks of Liberty, Texas, by Virginia Baptist disaster relief. As soon as Hurricane Ike had passed Liberty and we started to survey the damage left…

Which Scriptures?

As an ex-Baptist, contrarian and liberal heretic, I would like to share my reaction to the Second Opinion by David Gushee [Herald, Oct. 2]. For me the article, “Gender debate ultimately about Jesus,” misses the root of the problem, although…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for October 16, 2008

STAFF CHANGES • Chris Poluikis, to Covington Church, Covington, as pastor. • David Benjamin, to Winfree Memorial Church, Midlothian, as pastor. • Frank Gribble, to Fieldale Church, Fieldale, as pastor. • Scott Welch, to North Fork Church, Virgilina, as pastor….

FAITH DIGEST

Disputed dinner fails to deliver dialogue. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dined with 300 religious and political leaders in New York, but the controversial event offered far less dialogue than advertised. Ahmadinejad delivered a 45-minute address that cut short any possibility…

N.Y. Baptist group says to defrock pastor facing child-porn charge

(763 words) OSWEGATCHIE, N.Y. (ABP) — A statewide fellowship of independent Baptist churches in New York is recommending defrocking one of its pastors arrested on child-pornography charges. Leaders of First Baptist Church in the Upstate New York town of Oswegatchie…

SBU administrator named as Oklahoma Baptist president

SHAWNEE, Okla. (ABP) — David Whitlock, 46, an administrator at Southwest Baptist University, has been named Oklahoma Baptist University's 15th president, OBU trustees announced Oct. 10. "Having been born and raised in Oklahoma, Dr. Whitlock will fit us well," Alton…

Connecticut latest jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage

HARTFORD, Conn. (ABP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court Oct. 10 made that state the latest in the union to offer full marriage rights to same-sex couples. The state’s justices ruled 4-3 that the equal-protection and due-process provisions of the Connecticut…

Study: Younger evangelicals less conservative than elders

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A large study of religious Americans suggests that white evangelicals' views on gay rights may be shifting, rapidly, to the left. The survey, which includes one of the largest samples of younger voters' political and religious views…

Little framed in moral terms during presidential debate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — Economic woes and national security dominated a second presidential debate that offered little new information for undecided voters, including those looking for a values-based hook on which to hang their presidential choice. Democratic candidate Barack Obama…

Book says Southern Baptist women stronger than confession suggests

CORVALLIS, Ore. (ABP) — While professing to believe the Bible teaches them to submit to their husbands, Southern Baptist women tend to function as equal partners when it comes to most decision-making in the home, according to a new book…

Toward a more mature Christian vote

By David Gushee The United States is in trouble. Even our presidential candidates, trained to project confidence and strength, now admit that we face profound challenges. Everyone agrees that we are in the worst financial crisis since the Depression. Our…

Support for ‘two-state’ solution troubles some Palin backers

(ABP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s answer during her Oct. 2 vice-presidential debate expressing support for a “two-state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is drawing criticism from some of her strongest supporters — pro-Israel conservative Christians. “A two-state solution is…

Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children

Dan Patrick reiterates: ‘No separation of church and state’

Baptists know better than this

Judge bars Tennessee from revealing immigration status of sick children