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Diary of a relief worker

Another View for October 20, 2005 By Greg Smith ‘I've got to do something,” I told myself when I heard about the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. I remember pacing back and forth in my living room, mentally calculating how…

The pulpit leads the world

Editorial for October 20, 2005 By Jim White As I travel around the state, I try to redeem the time by listening to books on tape. I know.According to some of my friends, I should listen to Christian radio stations…

A call for bold stands

Heritage Column for October 20, 2005 By Fred Anderson Two names stand out in the long list of Virginia Baptist statesmen: Robert Baylor Semple, arguably the leading figure of the early 19th century, and Jeremiah Bell Jeter, certainly the leading…

Leadership Network offers workshop

What kind of world is it that we really live in? Can my church become a difference-maker in that world? Those and other questions are the subject of a workshop, “Being a Relevant Church,” sponsored by the Southwest Virginia Christian…

Bethany celebrates 235 years of ministry

By John Mann Bethany Baptist Church celebrated its 235th anniversary on Sept. 11 with a day-long celebration. The church was founded in the Guinea area of Caroline County in 1770. By 1800, the congregation had relocated to its present site…

Birth control, not liberalism, explains mainline decline, researchers say

CHICAGO (ABP) — The decline of mainline church membership over the last century had more to do with sex than theology, according to research by a trio of sociologists. The popular notion that conservative churches are growing because mainline churches…

Kentucky leaders negotiate plan to let Georgetown elect own trustees

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) — Officials of Georgetown College and the Kentucky Baptist Convention are proposing a new working relationship that would allow the college to have a self-perpetuating board of trustees while maintaining historic ties between the two organizations. The…

Coordinating Council votes to add ‘Jesus’ language to CBF constitution

ATLANTA (ABP) — National leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship voted Oct. 14 to restore explicit references to Jesus deleted from the group's constitution in July. A preamble to the constitution was approved by the CBF Coordinating Council with little…

New stem-cell procedures could quell fears — or create new ones

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Scientists have successfully tested two new methods designed to achieve the same ends as embryonic stem-cell research while avoiding the ethical controversy over the destruction of embryos. The two methods are detailed in articles published Oct. 16…

Justice is always coming

Not So Sorry explores the question: Should victims always forgive their abusers?

Did Trump voters know what they were getting? Pew surveys say yes

Ryan Walters orders all Oklahoma schoolchildren to pray for Trump