For the next four years there will be many emphases upon the 150th anniversary of the Civil War; and unlike the Centennial in the 1960s, the emphasis often will include emancipation. The Centennial was marketed as a celebration and it…
TRENDING: Leadership through the lens of discipleship
Robert Greenleaf coined the phrase “servant leadership” in 1970. This idea became a counterpoint to power-based, hierarchical models of how we lead. Many others (Peter Drucker, Max DePree, Peter Senge, Ken Blanchard, etc.) later added harmonies to the melody, signaling…
EDITORIAL: Where arts and history converge
Never one to pass on an opportunity to mix business with pleasure, while traveling in Germany recently I visited the German village of Schwäbisch Hall. A quintessential German mountain town nearly 875 years old, it features narrow, winding cobblestone streets…
VA BRIEFLY
"Moire," by Marvin Tadlock. Award for Intermont artist. Marvin Tadlock, professor of art at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Va., received a merit award this spring for his sculpture “Moire,” exhibited during the Knoxville (Tenn.) Art in Public Places Competition…
LETTER: Virginia Baptists and abortion
This is a letter to correct observations I made in a letter to the Religious Herald back in early 2005 concerning the position of Virginia Baptists on abortion. While I acknowledge the straight forward resolutions in the booklet “Truthfully Speaking”…
Virginia Baptist Foundation provides scholarships to 47 students in May
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Baptist Foundation awarded a total of $93,000 in scholarships to 47 undergraduate and graduate students May 22 at its fourth annual recognition service at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center. “It is an inspiration to learn…
OUT LOUD
“To me the real moral of the story is that big-time college sports are a mess and a poor platform for the promotion of religious virtue.” Tom Krattenmaker The commentator, who writes on religion and sports, was speaking of the…
WMU of India’s new web site enhances group’s ambitious goals
RICHMOND, Va. — Woman’s Missionary Union of India has just launched a new web site, thanks to a collaboration with its counterpart in Virginia.The new site — at www.wmuv.org/wmui — is the latest joint endeavor in a year-old partnership between…
Father’s warnings twice saved Japanese family from nuclear bombs
NEW BERN, N.C. (ABP) — Rieko Suganami Evans remembers the sky glowing strangely red behind a huge cloud and one little airplane flying out of the cloud. It was Aug. 6, 1945, and the Japanese city of Hiroshima had just…