GETTYSBURG, Pa. (RNS) — From his Old Testament beard down to his scuffed boots and battered Bible, Alan Farley looks the perfect picture of a Civil War chaplain. On a dusty field five miles from where the Battle of Gettysburg…
James River churches collaborate to feed the hungry
Volunteers from James River Baptist Association package meals to be shipped to the Ivory Coast to feed hungry children. DILLWYN, Va. — James River Baptist Association recently sponsored a Stop Hunger Now campaign to feed hungry people around the world….
HERITAGE: At the ‘Free Church’
The people came from Middleburg and the surrounding countryside of Loudon and Fauquier counties. They came on a beastly hot Sunday in June and they filled the old “Free Church” building now occupied by the Middleburg Baptist Church. They sang…
VITAL SIGNS: Clergy and grief
A friend and I were talking a few weeks ago and she made the following statement: One of the hardest parts of long-term ministry is burying your friends. I buried a dear friend on Monday. It was all I could…
OUT LOUD
“If the new conservative coalition is going to be a governing coalition, it’s going to have to have a significant number of Hispanics in it. That’s dictated by demographics, and you don’t get large numbers of Hispanics to support you…
EDITORIAL: A congress with a 100 percent approval rating
The Baptist World Alliance World Congress will be meeting July 28 to August 1 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and, Lord willing, Connie and I are going. The Religious Herald and the BWA go way back. In an 1895 editorial, Robert Healy…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • Brent Kimlick, to Franklin Church, Franklin, as pastor, effective in September. • Clarke Hawkins, to Hillcrest Church, Mechanicsville, as pastor. • Lee Cooper, to Hunting Creek Church, Nathalie, as pastor. • Tom Stocks, to Buena Vista Church,…
UVA administrator elected president of Virginia Intermont College
BRISTOL, Va. — An administrator with more than 30 years of experience in higher education will become the next president of Virginia Intermont College, trustees of the Virginia Baptist-affiliated school announced July 21. E. Clorisa Phillips, 54, currently associate provost…
Homeowners weigh morality of walking out on mortgages
ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS)—Lynn Thompson quit paying the mortgage on her investment property—not because she couldn’t afford the payments, but because she thinks walking away is better for her long-term financial health. trategic defaults on home mortgages accounted for 31 percent…
Musician teaches young girls that modest is hottest
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—As Jaime Jamgochian performs concerts and leads worship around the country, she communicates to teenage girls messages about modesty, purity and self-worth. “I really want young girls to be who God created them to be and to believe that…
FAITH DIGEST
Church attendance inches up, Gallup says. A new Gallup Poll found Americans’ self-reported church attendance has increased slightly since 2008. When asked how often they attend church, synagogue or mosque, 43.1 percent of Americans in 2010 said they attended “at…
Churches start their own humanitarian aid agencies
WASHINGTON (RNS)—Members of Metro Community Church in Englewood, N.J., support the missionaries sent by their denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church, to the Congo, but Africa is a distant and dangerous trip from the 400-member flock. “We can’t send our short-term…