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Top evangelical Haggard steps down after allegations from gay prostitute

Ted Haggard, head of the National Association of Evangelicals and a prominent opponent of gay rights, resigned Nov. 2, after a Colorado man came forward with allegations that Haggard paid him for sex and drugs. According to a Colorado Springs,…

Muslim group decries Baptist leader’s claims about Islamic ‘takeover’ of U.S.

Leaders from a prominent American Muslim group have denounced reported comments by the Missouri Baptist Convention's executive director claiming that “Islam has a strategic plan” to take over the United States. Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Washington-based Council on…

Are our churches getting what they need?

Business knows. If you fail to train people adequately they will fail to perform. Dow Jones understands this double failure isn't good for the bottom line. The military knows. Troops who don't understand how to use and fix sophisticated technological…

More support for Bluefield

Let me begin by thanking the Baptist General Association of Virginia for its past support of Bluefield College; not only in money, but in many other ways. It has indeed been a blessing. Recently I learned that a new funding…

Bluefield benefits Virginia Baptists

This year Virginia Baptists contributed $300,000 to Bluefield College. Next year that amount will be cut by more than 50 percent (“Virginia Baptist Mission Board takes show on the road,” Herald, Oct. 19). What do we do with the money…

The marriage amendment

I view with curiosity and bewilderment an amendment to “protect the institution of marriage” in the Commonwealth. As a former pastor of 26 years, a current professor of marriage and family life at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, as a…

Almost Baptist!

Growing up in Georgia, I devoured collards, cornbread and the columns by Louie D. Newton in the weekly issues of The Christian Index, the Georgia Baptist newspaper. Newton was a well-known pastor, former editor of the Index, and a denominational…

News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for November 9, 2006

STAFF CHANGES Ben Munford, to Oak Hall Church, Sandston, as pastor. Kirby Smith, to Oak Forest Church, Chesterfield, as pastor. Jim Graham, to Wallers Church, Partlow, as pastor. Russell H. Dilday, to First Church, Richmond, as interim pastor, effective Jan….

Arkansans approve bingo for religious, charitable causes

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., (ABP) — An Arkansas constitutional amendment legalizing charitable bingo and raffles passed Nov. 7, despite the efforts of Baptists to defeat it. Amendment 1, which passed with 69 percent of the vote, will allow non-profit organizations to…

Dallas church provides teaching ground for young ministers learning the ropes

DALLAS (ABP) — Lying in a hospital bed, Wilshire Baptist Church's pastor emeritus Bruce McIver told a close friend something he'd thought about for a long time. “Two months before he died, we talked about his desire to see more…

CBF names first coordinator for U.S. disaster response

ATLANTA (ABP) — Charles Ray, a long-time Little Rock, Ark., resident, has been named the first coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's U.S.-based disaster response team. He'll begin his new position Jan. 1, 2007. The two-year position was created through…

Supreme Court tackles ‘partial-birth’ abortion again — with 2 new justices

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The man who may cast the deciding vote in the Supreme Court's first major abortion cases in six years tipped his hand little during oral arguments Nov. 8. Justice Anthony Kennedy asked a cascade of highly technical…

What Disclosure Day reveals about evangelicals’ fears

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