Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

First Person for February 9, 2006 By Brooks R. Faulkner LifeWay Christian Resources It's a line by Jack Nicholson in the movie, A Few Good Men, and it goes like this: “You can't handle the truth.” It's an effort to…

Editorial for February 9, 2006 By Jim White Like millions of other Americans, I watched as a mule-drawn funeral coach bore the body of Coretta Scott King to the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta. As state troopers, a mix of…

Heritage Column for February 9, 2006 By Fred Anderson It has been said that when an old person dies, a library burns. If this is so, Virginia Baptists lost an extensive library last week in the death at age 87…

Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Thanks for including the interesting BP article about ultra-Darwinian Daniel C. Dennett by Albert Mohler (Jan. 12). Although Dennett would surely appreciate the compliment, Mohler is too generous in his reference to Dennett as “one of…

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…