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CBF of Virginia to hold annual meeting

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia will hold its 14th annual General Assembly March 9-10. The assembly, using the theme, “From Generation to Generation: Proclaiming the Greatness of God,” will be held at Second Baptist Church in Richmond. Speakers for…

Baptist legislators at work to reign in payday loan

Two Virginia Baptist state legislators are at the forefront of the effort to rein in so-called “payday loans.” Virginia Senate Majority Leader Walter A. Stosch, a member of Monument Heights Baptist Church in Richmond, and Delegate John O'Bannon, a member…

Virginia Baptists continue Seeds of Hope in Liberia

Virginia Baptists are continuing years of assistance to Liberia through “Seeds of Renewed Hope,” which will provide sustenance to people in that West African nation. Virginia Baptists are being encouraged to donate vegetable seeds of all kinds, as well as…

Accrediting agencies asked to probe seminary’s dismissal of female professor

A supporter of a professor who lost her job at a Southern Baptist seminary—allegedly due to gender discrimination—has filed complaints with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and Association of Theological Schools asking them to investigate “a serious breach”…

Virginia Baptists’ Upton shares ‘Covenant’ experience

Most Virginia Baptists respect the office of the U.S. presidency, so it comes as no surprise that when John Upton received a phone call from former president Jimmy Carter inviting him to attend a meeting of Baptists in April of…

IMB trustee investigation rejects allegations of board impropriety

The Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, following an internal investigation, has rejected a trustee's accusations of impropriety and unauthorized tightening of doctrinal parameters. The board reportedly approved a report, based on its own executive committee's investigations into the charges,…

National WMU to suffer from more funding cuts

The Woman's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has seen its annual revenues drop precipitously in the last eight years, now stands to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars more from one of the two mission boards it…

CBF to hold joint session with ABC during assembly

There will be a historic gathering and celebration of Baptist unity and shared values during this year's Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, to be held June 28-29, 2007, in Washington, D.C., when the CBF and the American Baptist Churches, USA,…

Baptist churches more vulnerable to clergy sex abuse, say experts

A recent sex scandal involving two North Texas pastors and the women who accused them of molestation is unusual because the victims—by now beyond the statute of limitations for sex-abuse cases—urged authorities and media to publish their names in conjunction…

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CBF of Virginia to hold annual meeting

Baptist legislators at work to reign in payday loan

Virginia Baptists continue Seeds of Hope in Liberia

Accrediting agencies asked to probe seminary’s dismissal of female professor

Virginia Baptists’ Upton shares ‘Covenant’ experience

IMB trustee investigation rejects allegations of board impropriety

National WMU to suffer from more funding cuts

CBF to hold joint session with ABC during assembly

Baptist churches more vulnerable to clergy sex abuse, say experts

Politics not behind Carter plan to unite Baptists, says Underwood

Bush, genetic scientist call U.S. to prayer

EDITORIAL: Glory be!

After US Aid Cuts, the Sick Wonder Who Will Visit Them

Inside a Christian mother’s fight against ICE activity in Chicagocu

Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

The Denomination That’s Half Evangelical, Half Black Protestant — And somehow holding together

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Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

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What I learned July 5 at church