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By J. Murphy Terry There is a Midwest saying or idiom: “Fisherman's luck, wet butt and hungry gut.” Many of my friends are sportsmen, hunters and fishermen. They are serious about their interests. In fact, they are not pleasant to…

Volunteer describes experience among destroyed homes in Florida. By Alice Banks Our experience with the Virginia Baptist disaster relief team was our first mission trip but not the last. We served on teams that cooked for everyone, shopped for groceries…

Some 130 Virginia Baptist volunteers spent the week of Feb. 7-11 on a disaster relief recovery trip to Punta Gorda, Fla. The group ministered in an area hit hard by Hurricane Charlie last August-and which they had visited just days…

By David Winfrey The Christian counseling department of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which defined the role of pastoral counseling for generations of ministers and Christian counselors, will make a wholesale change by emphasizing “biblical counseling” over behavioral science. The move…

Another View for March 3, 2005 By Karen Anne Vassar In January I was given the opportunity to leave the country for the first time in my life. I traveled with students from the College of William and Mary and…

Guest Editorial for March 3, 2005 By Brent Walker The Virginia House of Delegates-my elected body of representatives-is up to no good. By a vote of 69-27 the House recently passed a state constitutional amendment with sweeping language and dire…

Heritage Column for March 3 By Fred Anderson The Virginia General Assembly this session was presented with a proposed constitutional amendment which would have allowed praying and preaching in the public schools. Introduced by a member of the House of…

  S T A F F • C H A N G E S Prentis B. McGoldrick Jr., to Thalia Lynn Church, Virginia Beach, as senior pastor, effective March 27. Michael Copple, to Dundas Church, Dundas, as pastor. Gary Chiles,…

The BGAV and abortion In a letter in the Religious Herald dated Feb. 3, Greene Hollowell condemned the Baptist General Association of Virginia's stance on abortion, as published in Truthfully Speaking (available at http://www.vbmb.org/uploads/TruthfullySpeaking.pdf). Mr. Hollowell disputes this statement: “Be…