Al Mohler cozies up to Doug Wilson

Michael H. Flake, 32, director of resort ministries in the north Georgia mountains for the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board, was found dead Jan. 27 in Helen, Ga., Baptist Press reported Jan. 27. BP did not report the…

By Gary D. Myers Baptist Press Calling it a great day of triumph and victory, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley welcomed students back to the main campus Jan. 23. After five long months away, about 200 students…

The Lead Like Jesus Celebration coming to Richmond on Friday, Feb. 3 at St. Paul’s Baptist Church, will bring together a diverse, challenging and motivating group of speakers. Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager and co-founder of Lead…

Virginia legislators have moved the state one step closer to adopting a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The Virginia Senate voted 28-11 Jan. 24 to follow Virginia’s lower legislative chamber, the House of Delegates, in approving the proposed amendment. The…

Camp Alkulana, a ministry of the Richmond Baptist Association, has been awarded a $25,000 matching grant by the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, a Richmond family foundation. The grant was offered as a challenge to alumni and friends of Camp Alkulana…

By Dee Whitten Jim Vaught has been selected as the new church-minister matching specialist and a field strategist for the Virginia Baptist Mission Board’s empowering leaders team. Vaught has been co-pastor of Manassas Baptist Church in Manassas since 2003. In…

"The devastation is unbelievable, but the opportunity to help is even greater,” says Bluefield College sophomore Myra Bankert, one of four BC students who recently returned from a mission trip to the Gulf Coast to help the victims of Hurricane…

Another View for February 16, 2006 By David Briggs Religion News Service A Protestant and a Catholic murdered in a pub because they were friends having a drink together. A young woman killed in her bed. A journalist assassinated. All…

Editorial for February 16, 2006 By Jim White Like millions of other Americans, I have been watching the winter Olympics. I have been looking for an athlete with whom I can identify. You know, mid-50s, out of shape and in…

Heritage Column for February 16, 2006 By Fred Anderson Joyce Journey signed on with one of those temporary job agencies; and one day they told her that they needed to place her in an office job with Virginia Baptists. “We…

News reports and televised images of suffering by South Asia tsunami victims or hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast residents prompted Americans to reach deep into their pocketbooks to give last year. Americans gave more than $2.7 billion to aid Gulf Coast hurricane…

By John Pierce and Greg Warner Associated Baptist Press Can Baptists build and sustain a national Baptist university? It hasn't been done yet, said top leaders at Mercer University, but Mercer has as good a chance as anyone. “Mercer may…