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Ministers seek investigation into police shootings

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Black Baptist preachers in Jacksonville, Fla., are calling for an independent investigation into a rash of recent shootings by police. Family members said Kiko Battle, fatally shot by police, wanted to be a barber. The…

Baptist ministers facing sex charges appear in court

LIBERTY, Mo. (ABP) — Southern Baptist ministers facing molestation charges in three states had recent days in court. Robert M. Black, 40, pastor of New Home Baptist Church near St. Joseph, Mo., pleaded not guilty June 18 to felony…

Baptist leaders urge Congress to pass climate-change bill

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A total of 140 moderate Baptist leaders signed a June 18 letter urging passage of a comprehensive energy bill that includes caps on emissions linked to global warming. Drafted by the Baptist Center for Ethics, a…

Sewing skills are key for Portsmouth congregation’s ministry

PORTSMOUTH — It started with a sewing pattern and a mission conference. Bruce Powers, pastor of Westhaven Baptist Church in Portsmouth, attended the MC2 conference sponsored by the VBMB last summer at Eagle Eyrie. Staffers of the Woman’s Missionary Union…

Virginia Baptist disaster relief responds to flash floods in neighboring West Virginia

GILBERT, W.Va. (BP) — In the wake of flash floods that washed away rural roads and even mountainsides over six southern West Virginia counties on Mother’s Day weekend, Virginia Baptists joined other Baptist disaster relief feeding units and mud-out crews…

Virginia Baptist Foundation awards $101,000 to 53 scholarship recipients during service

RICHMOND — Ann F. Brown, chair of the scholarship committee of the Virginia Baptist Foundation, announced 53 scholarship recipients totaling $101,000 during the second annual Scholarship Recognition Service held May 31, at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center. Scholarship recipients gathered…

Hegseth’s nomination fits the TheoBro pattern creating abuse culture

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Ministers seek investigation into police shootings

Baptist ministers facing sex charges appear in court

Baptist leaders urge Congress to pass climate-change bill

Sewing skills are key for Portsmouth congregation’s ministry

Virginia Baptist disaster relief responds to flash floods in neighboring West Virginia

Virginia Baptist Foundation awards $101,000 to 53 scholarship recipients during service

Sewing skills are key for Portsmouth congregation’s ministry

Virginia Baptists responds to W. Va. flash floods

Virginia Baptist Foundation awards $101,000 to 53 scholarship recipients

Signing church services for the Deaf is a work of love — and a willingness to learn the Bible

The truth about religious disaffiliation depends on a long view, according to BYU researchers

Adam Schiff, California’s Jewish senator-elect and Trump’s nemesis, says the US is ‘very much weakened as a democracy’

How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution

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Hegseth’s nomination fits the TheoBro pattern creating abuse culture

Sunday schools in public schools?

Here’s a Mike Huckabee connection with the Holy Land you didn’t know

Trump is nominating Project 2025 leaders to key posts