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BLUEFIELD—Bluefield College's 42-year-old Harman Chapel is moving into the 21st century, thanks to a donor's desire to bring state-of-the-art multimedia presentation devices to the facility. Thanks to a sizable contribution from BC alumna and trustee Susan McDougle Tussey and her…

RICHMOND—Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond's School of Christian Ministry has announced its January 2008 online courses and spring conferences. For more information or to register, call 1-888-339-2877 (toll free) or email scminfo@btsr. edu. Online Congregational Leadership Certificate Program courses will…

MIDDLESEX, N.J. (RNS)—As Boy Scout Troop 114 cooked lunch during the recent Highland Games near their tents in a Middlesex County, N.J., park, a senior Scout summoned his fellow members. The Scouts huddled around tree trunks in Thompson Park and…

BLACKSBURG (RNS)—The Holocaust survivor who helped save students' lives before dying during a shooting spree at Virginia Tech last April was named by Beliefnet.com as its Most Inspiring Person of the Year. Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, was one of 32…

STAFF CHANGES • Russell “Rusty” Beck, to Parkview Church, Newport News, as pastor, effective Jan. 1. He has served as youth pastor at Parkview since 2003. • Peyton Wiltshire, to Two Rivers Church, King George, as pastor. • Bob Yeaman,…

HAMPTON (BP)—The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia convened Nov. 12-13 in Hampton, drawing nearly 1,200 people who marked the convention's surpassing the 500 mark in total churches. In a business session, messengers admitted 21 churches into…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP)—A decision by Missouri Baptist Convention leaders to cut off funding for certain new church starts has set off a firestorm of protest and further widened a rift among conservative Baptists in the state. MBC Executive Board…