Senators clear the way for Hegseth’s Christian nationalist crusade

Imagine you are a 26-year-old single mother with four children ranging in age from two to nine years old. You didn’t finish high school and you work as a waitress. You struggle to cover rent, utilities, medicine, food, clothes and…

By Erich Bridges Baptist Press A new campaign against the conversion of Hindus to Christianity is “evidence of success” for the spread of the gospel in India, a Christian worker there says. Militant Hindu leaders mounted a major gathering in…

Virginia Baptists have been asked to help develop a spiritual meditation trail at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center near Lynchburg. The Eagle Eyrie Committee, which is planning the conference center’s 50th anniversary celebration this June, has announced a contest to…

Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson of Chesapeake has lost his place on the board of directors of the National Religious Broadcasters, following a recent vote at the NRB’s annual meeting. NRB officials declined to say whether the voters may…

Thanks to a contribution from a former Richmond church, Virginia Baptists will soon have a children’s ministry disaster response unit. The unit, a 16-foot long, 8-foot wide trailer, will be added to Virginia Baptists growing disaster relief program and provide…

Denying a Jerusalem Post story that said he had embraced a “dual covenant” theology, Virginia evangelist Jerry Falwell said March 1 that he believes all people, including Jews, “must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in order to enter heaven.”…

The United Methodist Church will not hold its 2012 leadership conference in Richmond because the name of the city’s minor league baseball team is racially charged, the church’s leadership has announced. Members of the conference’s planning commission said they were…

Baptist college students interested in church music and worship are encourged to apply for the 2006-07 class of Heritage Fellows of the Center for Baptist Heritage and Studies. The program provides an opportunity for Baptist sophomores and juniors attending Virginia…

More than a year after a catastrophic tsunami opened doors for Virginia Baptists to minister in southern India, ties between Baptists in the Commonwealth and in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are burgeoning. Virginia Baptists are now…