You’ve finally graduated college! Now your most pressing reminder of those university days is the looming debt of student loans. But fast forward into the years just ahead. You need a car! But what can you afford? You’re getting married!…
Charles Ryland, former BGAV, president, dies
WARSAW, Va. — Charles Hill Ryland, a former president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia with deep roots in Virginia Baptist life, died Oct. 22 at age 95. Ryland, a longtime member of Warsaw Baptist Church, was BGAV president…
Historical resources to be available at Virginia Baptist annual meeting
RICHMOND — Two new resources of the Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies will be available at the annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. “The Swirling Center: Prospects for Diversity in the Church” is a three-disc DVD…
4 inducted into Bluefield’s Sports Hall of Fame
BLUEFIELD — Four Bluefield College alumni received the school’s highest honor available for former athletes when they were inducted into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 24. Bill Berry, Larry Slagle and Mark Vinson were included in the…
Women gather to pray, fast for public schools
Moms In Touch International is celebrating its 25th year of encouraging moms to pray for children and schools. What began as one mother’s heart-cry as her children went to public junior high school has expanded to include an estimated 175,000…
FAITH DIGEST
‘No more Nazi analogies,’ religious leaders urge. Religious leaders are calling on their colleagues and politicians to keep comparisons to Nazism and the Holocaust out of American public policy debates. The Interfaith Alliance responded to a recent onslaught of references…
Conscience clauses not just about abortion anymore
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Faced with a request to give an unmarried female patient a prescription for birth control pills, Michele Phillips looked to her conscience for the answer. “I’m not going to give any kind of medication I see as…
RIGHT OR WRONG?: Legal vs. ethical
A co-worker insists that just because a workplace guideline is legal does not guarantee it is ethical. I maintain policies are neither legal nor ethical but should be understood as both-and. What do you think? In an ideal world, policies…
OUT LOUD
“One of the most amazing surprises of the presidency was the fact that people’s prayers affected me.” Former President George W. Bush The former president was quoted by the Washington Post. (RNS) “As Christians, we are asked to believe some…