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

Offering help The Baptist Student Union at the United States Air Force Academy would like to contact men and women reporting to the Academy June 29 and 30. For those arriving June 29, we will meet them at the airport,…

Ronald C. Hall has been named president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Baptist Foundation Inc. Hall was elected, effectively immediately, by the Foundation's board of trustees at its semi-annual meeting May 5. He succeeds Timothy K. Norman, who…

The Virginia Baptist Historical Society highlighted a series of accomplishments for the year during its annual meeting May 10 at First Baptist Church in Richmond-a meeting that followed by only a little more than a week a celebration of its…

By Alexander Lane Rutgers University professor Richard Lutz goes looking for undersea volcanoes, not controversy. So the soft-spoken scientist is surprised to find himself on the front lines of the culture wars. Lutz was the chief scientist for Volcanoes of…

By Helena Andrews Despite initial controversy surrounding The Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott's new film about the Crusades, it is getting generally positive reviews from Muslims in the United States and in Arab countries. “It was really nice to go…

A top Pentagon official has ordered the appointment of a special task force to investigate “lingering allegations” about religious discrimination at the Air Force Academy toward cadets who are not evangelical Christians. The announcement, following several months of allegations about…

A federal judge has temporarily halted a sex-education program in a suburban Washington, D.C, school district, saying it violates the First Amendment's free-speech and religion clauses by promoting only one view of homosexuality. On May 5, United States District Judge…

By Tony Cartledge Embattled pastor Chan Chandler announced his resignation during a business meeting May 10, surprising both supporters and detractors at East Waynesville Baptist Church in Waynesville N.C. Chandler, 33, had been pastor of the church for two and…

Mr. and Mrs. Harwood Cochrane made the challenge-and 772 individuals responded. The result was more than $2.4 million in gifts and pledges to Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Issued to energize BTSR supporters for the seminary's “Building Our Future ……

Heritage Seekers, a Baptist heritage magazine for children and their families, has released its second issue. The second issue focuses on Baptists working together and tells the stories of Nannie Helen Burroughs, Blanche Sydnor White, Wendy Ryan and Shirley Hayes….

James G. Hamacher has been elected executive director of missions by the Middle District Baptist Association, a fellowship of churches in Amelia, Chesterfield and Powhatan counties and part of the city of Richmond. Hamacher will begin his ministry June 1….

Volunteers are being sought for a Virginia Baptist construction project in Grenada. Two or three volunteers are needed to help build two frame houses on the Caribbean island. The project is at the top of the Grenada Baptist Association's help…