20,000 gather in Phoenix for Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2024

One of the evangelical groups that helped send Donald Trump back to the White House held a massive rally for the once and future president in Phoenix over the weekend, and Trump pledged to keep the promises he’s made to...

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Some clerics want values without conservative definitions

Twenty-four religious leaders have announced a nationwide effort to expand the political debate on values beyond abortion and gay marriage to incorporate subjects such as housing, education and crime control. The clergy, most of them politically liberal to moderate, have…

Italian Baptists elect woman pastor as president

The Italian Baptist Union has elected a woman pastor as president for the first time. Anna Maffei, co-pastor of Chiesa Battista in Naples, is the first female to serve as president of the Union, which held its annual general assembly…

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Rapping the gospel

American rock music has always had its spiritual side. But recently the genre has revived its embrace of spirituality and religion, as artists who are Christian-not just Christian music artists-express their faith in their songs. By Aymar Jean Both pious…

Tornado stirs up unity at North Carolina church after damaging hit

ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. — Members of Elizabethtown Baptist Church are thanking God and cleaning up after a tornado April 16 demolished much of its campus in this southeastern North Carolina town. Church volunteers had spent the day cleaning up the buildings…

Why I’m proud to be a liberal

Guest editorial for Nov. 25 By Henlee Barnette Henlee Barnette, a noted Southern Baptist pioneer in Christian ethics, died Oct. 20 at age 93. (See obituary in the Herald, Oct. 28). One week before he died, Barnette submitted this commentary…

Church & People News for November 25, 2004

Church & People News for Nov. 25 S T A F F • C H A N G E S Johnny Adkins, to Friendship Church, Coeburn, as bi-vocational pastor. Gil Diokno, to Fil-Am Christian Church, Locust Grove, as pastor. Darrell…

Letters to the Editor

Letters for Nov. 25 Support military personnel As Virginia Baptists observe the year-end holidays, giving thanks for the founding of our nation and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, we invite all citizens of our state and nation to join…

The rocking chairs

Heritage column for Nov. 25 In the great division of things that follows the closing of a family home, the rocking chairs were not the kind of pieces over which there would have been a tug of war. They were…