Al Mohler cozies up to Doug Wilson

By Bob Moore Pastor Bonsack Baptist Church, Roanoke Bonsack is traditional Southern Baptist church with deep roots in Virginia Baptist life. I appreciate the flexibility the Virginia Baptist Mission Board provides for churches to tailor their cooperative giving to each…

By Jerry Parker Pastor Immanuel Baptist Church, Colonial Heights Immanuel Baptist Church in Colonial Heights is a conservative church with a strong commitment to missions that is expressed in our giving to the Cooperative Program and specific mission offerings. Through…

Cover Story for November 10, 2005 By Robert Dilday Associate Editor Virginia Baptist churches will be asked to provide $14.1 million next year for ministries in their state, if a proposed Cooperative Program budget is adopted by messengers attending the…

Heritage Column for November 10, 2005 By Fred Anderson When Ray Allen retired from the active pastorate in 1995, he admitted that he might have “a book or two” in him. Recently he was as surprised as anyone that one…

Bert Browning, pastor of Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond, will lead Virginia Baptists as president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia in 2006. Browning, a Virginia pastor since 1976, was elected at the BGAV annual meeting in Woodbridge….

Cover Story for November 17, 2005 By Robert Dilday Associate Editor Virginia Baptists approved a reduced budget for 2006 during a peaceful annual meeting Nov. 10-11 which focused on worship and a new mission partnership with Baptists in India. About…

Front page story for November 24, 2005 Four Virginia Baptist couples from Chesapeake broke new ground last month when they spent a week in Nanjing, China, teaching the children of migrant workers there. The eight Americans-all members of Jackson Memorial…

Following a battle with cancer and double pneumonia, Adrian Rogers, the longtime pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in suburban Memphis and one of the fathers of the movement that moved the Southern Baptist Convention to a more conservative stance, died…

Heritage Column for November 17, 2005 By Fred Anderson They stand there all lined up at the front of Fieldale Baptist Church. Well-scrubbed faces and neat dress. Smiles on their faces. Maybe the cameraman said something to get them to…

Heritage Column for November 24, 2005 By Fred Anderson Richard M. Bowman is a walking encyclopedia of family lore, local history and Virginia’s past. He has researched his family back to the 1780s and can give the names and dates…

Capital punishment I was shocked and horrified to read the letter on capital punishment in the Herald’s Nov. 3 issue. I hope somebody with better qualifications and more charity and less anger responds. However, in case nobody else comments, Jesus…

Another View for November 10, 2005 By Pamela R. Durso Associate Director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society With approximately 30 million members and over 50 distinct groups, Baptists make up the largest and the most diverse American Protestant…