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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While the U.S. Navy has rescinded a regulation that restricted chaplains from conducting public worship outside of Sunday chapels, an evangelical claims the military branch is firing him for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,…

Fires investigated at N.C. churches

“Suspicious” fires damaged two Baptist churches and a break-in was discovered at a third in Greenville, N.C., the night of Jan. 13. Memorial Baptist Church and Unity Free Will Baptist, located near each other in the city about 50 miles…

Day will celebrate preaching of women

Baptist Women in Ministry is inviting all churches to participate in the first of what it hopes will be an annual Martha Stearns Marshall Day of Preaching. “On the first Sunday of February each year, we will join together to…

N.C. editor announces plans to leave

Tony Cartledge, editor of the Biblical Recorder, the state Baptist paper of North Carolina, has announced that he will leave his post to assume a teaching position with Campbell University Divinity School. Teaching has always been a source of great…

EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida preaches to preachers

Dear Jimmy, As you know, it's been a while since you got a letter from your dear old auntie, so I thought I'd bring you up to date. I can't do much else anyway because our lights are out. I…

The full story?

I seem to remember taking a short journalism course in college where we were told to consider, “Who, What, Where, When, Why and sometimes How,” when writing a story. What's wrong with this story [“Panel reports ‘no breach'; WMU executive…

Spreading love

In 1942 Alma Cree finished business school in Henderson, N.C, and did the unthinkable. She had grown up hearing about the Foreign Mission Board and imagined that it would be “a good place to work.” She wrote a blind letter…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries

Staff Changes Lewis McElfresh, to Summit Point Church, Summit Point, W.Va., as pastor. Virginia Swaim White, to Arlington Church, Arlington, as permanent part-time pastor. Jonathan Wolf, to Dundas Church, Dundas, as pastor. Mark T. Holland, to Boulevard Church, Richmond, as…

PNBC plans ‘Freedom Sunday’ this weekend

Christian nationalism is neither Christian nor patriotic

High court says feds can deny reentry to Green Card holders

BNG introduces ‘Bible Divas’ podcast