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Virginia church with historic ties to SBC will vote on leaving due to Law Amendment

A Virginia church with deep historical ties to the Southern Baptist Convention will vote May 19 on a proposal to sever ties with the SBC due to the denomination’s intolerance for women serving as pastors. For decades, First Baptist Church...

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Aliens landed at Atlee

It may have sounded like a gathering new-age sci-fi trekkies, but “Alien” was the name given a conference for churches desiring to be innovative in their goal of reaching people with the message of Jesus. The conference was envisioned by…

FIRST PERSON: On building bridges

Editor's note: Following this article is a brief email exchange between Dr. Rainer and me. When my three grown sons were small children, we would often play with a wooden train. Because they were so young, the boys would sometimes…

EDITORIAL: Some things can’t be ignored

It is a small country church that called as pastor a man they believed was God's choice for them. The members are good, salt-of-the-earth folks. Unsophisticated by intent, perhaps even naïve in their innocence, they believed the “man of God”…

Concerned about IMB

Having gone on record last year in the Religious Herald as being “optimistic” about the potential to be both a Virginia Baptist and a Southern Baptist, I must admit that my optimism is being greatly tested by the actions of…

Search committees

In light of the recent article of Chamberlayne Baptist Church's success with calling a new pastor [“Insights gleaned from a pastor search committee,” Feb. 22], I wanted to submit this letter I wrote a number of months ago to a…

Gays in churches

Maybe I'm missing something, but the article about the North Carolina Baptist convention [“Gay-friendly church in N.C. invites investigation,” Feb. 22] seems to lack a detail. Does Myers Park Baptist Church encourage people with abnormal orientation to hold positions of…