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Virginia Baptist volunteers join Texas Baptists to provide assistance after Ike

LIBERTY, Texas — Less than 72 hours after Hurricane Ike made landfall, a convoy of Virginia Baptist disaster relief units pulled into the parking lot of First Baptist Church, Liberty, Texas. By the next afternoon, Sept. 16, almost 100 Virginia…

The why and the how

Virginia Baptist disaster relief ministries are able to respond to disasters such as Hurricane Ike because of the gifts of Virginia Baptist churches to Cooperative Missions, the Alma Hunt Offering for Virginia Missions and individual designated donations to the general…

BGAV registration ends soon

RICHMOND — Preregistration for Connect:2008, the 185th annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, will be closing in mid-October, say association officials. Connect:2008 will be held in Roanoke Nov. 11-12 at the Roanoke Civic Center and the Hotel…

VIRGINIA BRIEFS

Bluefield College earns membership in Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Bluefield College has been awarded full membership into the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, a higher education association of more than 180 intentionally Christ-centered institutions around the world….

SECOND OPINION: Gender debate ultimately about Jesus

On Sept. 15, I published an article in USA Today that has bounced around the blogosphere evoking intense reaction ever since. The argument of the article was that Sarah Palin's nomination for vice president, and the warm conservative evangelical response…

INTERVIEW: Security is not the ‘highest good’ for Christians

In the final weeks of Campaign 2008, presidential candidates are lavishing promises to keep America safe from terrorist attacks and from economic meltdown. But some Christian thinkers are wondering aloud whether America might be truer to Christian ideals — and…

Trumpet sounds

Donald Jordan Dunlap retired from his last pastorate, Freemason Street Baptist Church in Norfolk, in 1999; and four years later, in 2003, Don and Kay Dunlap left Tidewater to return to his native Christiansburg. Don and his brother, the late…

OUT LOUD

“I'd like to see the CEOs of these companies march down Wall Street in sackcloth and ashes.” Cokie Roberts The ABC news analyst was speaking on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” about Wall Street executives who asked Washington to bail…

Who kicked out whom?

While I agree wholeheartedly with Marshall Buckles' comments online about the SBC and CBF working together [Herald, Sept. 18], he seems to have forgotten who kicked whom out of the SBC leadership and I might say, quite incriminatingly. Gerald R….

The nature of forgiveness

In your Sept. 18 issue Tom Ehrich said that “Forgiveness grows out of a determination to live ….” I am not sure what he is saying, but certainly determination to live is not a biblical basis for forgiveness, so I…

FAITHSHAPERS: Special children

I'd like to tell you about my Ann. She is autistic, and she is the bravest person I have ever met. Sometimes she disappears, and I can find her in bed under all the pillows, or under the loveseat in…

Some conservatives say: ‘A woman VP? Sure. A woman pastor? No way’

WASHINGTON (RNS) — There may never be a female pastor leading Tony Perkins' Southern Baptist congregation in Louisiana, but there could be a woman taking over the vice president's mansion in Washington. And as Perkins sees it, there's no contradiction…

Rubio says US shouldn’t be held accountable by international court

Demands mount as Trump’s ICE agents kill two more people

The real American religion: A July 4 postmortem

9 months later, schools are paying for firing teachers over Kirk posts