As Advent begins on Sunday, Dec. 2, Passport Inc. continues its Following the Star daily online devotionals and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has made available videos of Advent sermons preached by Jim Somerville, pastor of First Baptist Church in Richmond….
EDITORIAL: Support your Gaza Baptist brothers and sisters
I am old enough to remember the politically conservative mantra of the late 1960s and ’70s: “My country, right or wrong.” I was young enough and naïve enough during those years to believe in the absolute moral integrity of America’s…
OPINION: Art is order
There is graffiti painted on the side of an underpass near my neighborhood. In large black and red colors it reads, “Art is Order.” Despite the irony of the tagger’s lack of respect for the order of law, I see…
OPINION: Shift happens (or it should)
Most of us in North Carolina realize that a significant shift has been taking place in recent years, a shift in the relationship between the church and the culture. Earlier in my life and ministry, the church sat at the…
Veteran donates his homemade wagons to eager recipients at N.C. Children’s Homes
THOMASVILLE, N.C. — It was a little late for Veterans Day, a little early for Christmas. But when Bill Dorrity arrived at the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina in Thomasville to give handmade wooden wagons to more than 100…
HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
Accepted a new call? Been ordained? Church celebrating an anniversary? Mission trip or project that you would like highlighted on the HeraldBeat page? Send info to HeraldBeat editor Barbara Francis at [email protected] Christmas Music and Drama THURS., DEC. 6 Northstar…
Bluefield College trustees begin process to name board of directors for new dental school
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Bluefield College’s trustees began a process to name a board of directors for its new dental school during their recent annual fall meeting. Bluefield's campus is about three miles from the site of its proposed dental school….
OPINION: Thanksgiving grieved
Today as I write this it is Black Friday, yesterday was Thanksgiving and I long to go back to a time when it mattered. Perhaps that is just nostalgia. Perhaps Thanksgiving never really was that important to most people. But…
D.C., Va. churches developing response to plight of Palestinians, as Baptists in Gaza struggle
WASHINGTON — Two churches in the Washington area are working closely with the Alliance of Baptists to develop a Christian response to the plight of Palestinians — a task they said has taken on greater urgency as a fragile ceasefire…
D.C., Va. churches developing response to plight of Palestinians, as Baptists in Gaza struggle
WASHINGTON — Two churches in the Washington area are working closely with the Alliance of Baptists to develop a Christian response to the plight of Palestinians — a task they said has taken on greater urgency as a fragile ceasefire…
HERITAGE: Remembering a namesake
In October this columnist visited Sanford Memorial Baptist Church at Brodnax, a small town east of South Hill, Va. The occasion was the church’s centennial. It was a grand and glorious celebration. Some church folks had even roasted a pig…
OUT LOUD
“You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that. I know I can’t. I’m not OK with what I’m learning, what the Bible says, and being on that television show.” Angus T. Jones The…