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BGAV, VBMB committee chairs named for 2009

Baptist General Association of Virginia president Jeff Bloomer, who also serves as chair of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, has appointed chairs for several committees for 2009. The commitees and their chairs are: • BGAV Budget Committee: Tom McCann, Richmond…

Celebrating 20 years

This combination of head, hands and heart has served Virginia Baptists well through the years. In addition to his responsibilities as associate editor which include the production of the paper, Dilday makes an essential contribution as a staff writer. His…

As justices again consider abortion attention turns to shifting court

WASHINGTON (ABP) — As the Supreme Court took up its first major abortion case in five years Nov. 30, attention focused on the body's shifting membership and what that might mean for abortion rights in the future. During oral arguments…

Court sidesteps campaign-finance case brought by Wisconsin pro-life group

WASHINGTON (ABP) — The Supreme Court on Jan. 23 sidestepped a challenge brought by an anti-abortion group against a federal campaign-finance law. The court, in an unsigned opinion without recorded dissent, directed a lower federal court to reconsider its decision…

Corrections

Please replace the fourth paragraph in the Feb. 7 story, “Fires damage four more churches in rural Alabama – all Baptist” with the following: Austin Banks, a senior special agent for the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said…

Clarification

In the Feb. 21 ABP story, “Supreme Court upholds RFRA in saying OK to sacramental drug,” a lack of clarity in the 16th paragraph could cause some readers to misunderstand a source's statement. Please replace that paragraph with the following:…

As arson investigation continues, Alabama church ‘bounces back’

RANDOLPH, Ala. (ABP) — As investigators continue to search for clues to lead them to the arsonists who set fire to 10 Alabama churches in 10 days, members of one burned-out church have only forgiveness in their hearts for the…

Pakistani workers strike, children burn flags in anti-cartoon violence

KARACHI, Pakistan (ABP) – Violence continues in Muslim countries worldwide as protests over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad increase in fervor. In Pakistan, more than 50,000 people chanted anti-American slogans and burned flags during a protest that came a day…

Massachusetts court delivers gay-marriage setback

BOSTON (ABP) — The same court that created a national firestorm by legalizing gay marriage in 2003 delivered gay-rights activists a setback March 30 in a related case. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 7-1 that an obscure 1913 law…

Make a resolution to embrace your true self and the rest will fall into place

Jimmy Carter was the most decent and respectable president of my lifetime

Jimmy Carter and the strength of fields

Tucker Carlson seeing demons in his bedroom is not a good sign