SALEM, Va. — Imagine that you are 10 years old when you finally find the courage to tell your teacher about some problems you have been having at home. Then your world falls completely apart. Eight years ago, this happened…
New addition enhances ministry at Longwood, Hampden-Sydney
FARMVILLE, Va. — Crowded conditions at the Baptist collegiate ministry serving Longwood University and Hampden-Sydney College have been eased with the addition of 870 more square feet in its student center. The construction project came in response to several years…
Pastor retires from boyhood church that was model for TV’s ‘The Waltons’
SCHUYLER, Va. — Matthew Fordwick was the young pastor of the Baptist church in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia on The Waltons, a popular television show created by Earl Hamner Jr. Fordwick came to Walton’s Mountain Baptist Church fresh…
TRENDING: New Zealand clues — Where to look for what’s next
A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. (Isaiah 11:1) In his erratic but occasionally illuminating book, The Future of Faith, Harvard’s Harvey Cox traces the beginning of the…
OPINION: Lottie Moon: The person and the legend
“It is a small thing to be judged of a man’s judgment. It is good to know that we are judged by God.” As I began my graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I stumbled…
VITAL SIGNS: Is your church making you healthy or sick?
Our 10-month-old grandson recently went through a medical emergency. His immune system was compromised and his body was under assault from an infection. He needed immediate treatment and the diagnosis called for him to receive intravenous immunoglobulin. This is a…
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“What serious, let alone decent religiously conscious person — left or right, conservative or liberal — would knowingly work to enrich this dreadful man who will go down in history as the epitome of everything that all religion says it’s…
EDITORIAL: Where the Spirit moves
Like an elephant in the room, China cannot be ignored. Apart from its growing economic prowess and global influence, of particular interest to Christians worldwide is the Chinese Church. In the last issue of the Herald, I reported on a…
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