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Heritage Center releases publication on polity

Baptist polity is the subject of a new publication by the Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies. Walking Together: The Struggle of Baptists with Polity in the 21st Century is an examination of how Baptists govern their churches and includes…

Bluefield students lead music ministry in Europe

Bluefield College has sent 25 students to Europe this month for a music mission project with the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Twenty-five BC students who are members of two music ensembles are traveling in Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic,…

Senate moderates compromise as conservative groups cry ‘foul’

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A battle over President Bush's judicial nominees that threatened to destroy what little comity is left in the United States Senate has been defused — at least temporarily. And many of the religious conservative leaders who pushed…

House approves stem-cell bill despite Bush’s veto threat

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A large, bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives has defied President Bush, Republican leaders and some conservative interest groups by passing a bill that would expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. But Bush promised to…

From people to technology, ‘migration’ escalating change, says missions strategist

DALLAS (ABP) – Christians must minister in a world where escalating change is speeded up by the “migration” of everything from people to technology, missions strategist Bill O'Brien insisted. “We live in a world where accelerating change is the norm,”…

Church & People News for May 26, 2005

Staff Changes Alan Stanley, to Christ Church, Manassas, as pastor. Todd Higginson, resigning as pastor of Boulevard Church, Richmond, to accept the call as resident minister intern at Franklin Church, Franklin. Steven R. Gibson, to Franklin Church, Franklin, as…

The spiritual ‘Vietnam Syndrome’

Another View for May 19, 2005 By Erich Bridges The 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War brought countless replays of the news footage showing American helicopters lifting off from the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon…

Health insurance is great – when you’ve got it

Guest Editorial for May 19, 2005 By Robert Parham “How much do you think this bottle of pills costs?” asked my wife, several days after I had returned home from a month in the hospital for the treatment of acute…

Some megapulpits face transition, while others struggle

Analysis for May 26, 2005 By Greg Warner Two more Baptist megachurches are venturing into mostly uncharted waters-replacing legendary preachers-where success has proven rare. Jerry Vines announced May 1 he will retire next February as pastor of the 28,000-member First…

Creating a sanctuary in times of fear

Author calls Christians to the ‘courageous middle’

Heritage Foundation’s antisemitism effort ignores Jewish groups

If a felon can lead, why can’t they vote?