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Virginia Baptist from Georgia serves on panel

When the Baptist General Association of Virginia's religious liberty committee met at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center in Richmond on Jan. 18, one committee member had traveled more than 600 miles to get there. Paula Batts is a member of…

Henry to speak at evangelism conference

Jim Henry, former pastor of First Baptist in Orlando, Fla., and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will be the keynote speaker at the Southwest Evangelism Conference on Feb. 19 at First Baptist Church in Galax. The conference will…

FIRST HAND: What is the future of liturgical worship?

In a recent academic publication by InterVarsity Press, Liturgical Theology, Simon Chan presents an intriguing case for the use of liturgy. With the center of the church shifting from Western Europe and North America to the southern hemisphere, perhaps it…

Episcopal Church left historic Christianity, conservatives say

Two leaders of The Falls Church, one of the largest Episcopal parishes in Virginia that voted to sever ties with the Episcopal Church, said they left the denomination because the American Episcopal Church “no longer believes in the historic, orthodox…

Chaplain: Grounds for his ouster were overturned by Congress

While the U.S. Navy has rescinded a regulation that restricted chaplains from conducting public worship outside of Sunday chapels, an evangelical claims the military branch is firing him for violating that guideline. A chaplain at the Naval Air Station in…

Carter, Clinton hope compassion agenda will unite Baptists across North America

Baptists from across North America will convene in Atlanta early next year to emphasize their compassion rather than the racial, theological and social conflict that has divided them for decades. Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton—two of the world's…

Virginia Baptist leaders join others for covenant celebration

Three Virginia Baptist leaders were among the more than 80 leaders from 40 Baptist organizations in the United States and Canada who met Jan. 9 in Atlanta. John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia; Jerry Jones,…

SBC officials reject Carter, but not all Southern Baptists agree

Southern Baptist officials harshly rejected Jimmy Carter's effort to unite all Baptists in North America under a compassion agenda, calling the ambitious plan “voodoo ecumenism” and a thinly veiled Democratic strategy to woo values voters. But other Southern Baptists, including…

Belmont subpoenas church records in Tennessee lawsuit

Belmont University has subpoenaed giving records from 100 Tennessee Baptist Convention churches in an ongoing legal dispute with the convention over control of the school's assets. The subpoena asks for records on churches' giving to the Cooperative Program between 1951,…

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Virginia Baptist from Georgia serves on panel

Henry to speak at evangelism conference

FIRST HAND: What is the future of liturgical worship?

Episcopal Church left historic Christianity, conservatives say

Chaplain: Grounds for his ouster were overturned by Congress

Carter, Clinton hope compassion agenda will unite Baptists across North America

Virginia Baptist leaders join others for covenant celebration

SBC officials reject Carter, but not all Southern Baptists agree

Belmont subpoenas church records in Tennessee lawsuit

Fires investigated at N.C. churches

Day will celebrate preaching of women

N.C. editor announces plans to leave

Cooperative Baptists Challenge Christian Nationalism, Advocate for Loving Neighbors

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What Disclosure Day reveals about evangelicals’ fears

Insufficient

6 ways the Reflecting Pool boondoggle mirrors Trump and MAGA

Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’