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Sunday came for Tony Campolo

Tony Campolo, an influential Christian pastor, professor, author, speaker, social activist and adviser to President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday, Nov. 19 at age 89. He was surrounded by family at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, the Philadelphia retirement community where he...

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• Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum takes CEO job at evangelical film company | London Daily Mail, 6/24 • A more secular Europe, divided by the cross | New York Times, 6/17 • Egypt preacher spared jail for ‘insulting’ Christianity…

Going home

Last month this columnist spoke in a “Virginia Baptist” church in a very far corner of Southwest Virginia. Actually, my speaking engagement was at First Baptist Church of Dalton, as in Dalton, Georgia. In 2006 the Georgia church joined the…

From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap

Around Virginia for February 12, 2009 STAFF CHANGES • Thomas S. Larson, to Fox Hill Church, Hampton, as pastor. • John Robertson, to Red Bank Church, Nassawadox, as pastor. • Bill Corey, to Antioch Church, Mechanicsville as pastor. He had…

Baptist pastor convicted in Azerbaijan

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist pastor in the South Caucasus country of Azerbaijan has been found guilty of what supporters say are bogus weapons charges and given “a two-year corrective labor sentence,” according to a worldwide Baptist group. The Virginia-based…

The challenge of the new urbanism

Lights strung from a sanctuary’s ceiling at Epiphany. Art galleries and exhibits. Bicycle repair seminars. Cafes and coffee houses. Worship gatherings in downtown music venues. In meeting the challenges of revitalized urban neighborhoods across the country, urban churches are rethinking…

The challenge of the new urbanism

Lights strung from a sanctuary’s ceiling at Epiphany. Art galleries and exhibits. Bicycle repair seminars. Cafes and coffee houses. Worship gatherings in downtown music venues. In meeting the challenges of revitalized urban neighborhoods across the country, urban churches are rethinking…