Fred Anderson

One of the most attractive and appealing areas of Virginia is the Hunt Country of Northern Virginia. The gentle hills, the rolling dark green meadows, the horse farms, the stacked stone walls that stretch forever are mental images which remain…

For the second summer, this columnist participated in the after-school program of the African Christian Community Church which meets in the old sanctuary of Hatcher Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. The Richmond Baptist Association adopted the African Christian Church…

I awoke with a tune stuck in my head. It was a catchy tune but I couldn’t figure it out. Where had I heard it? And then the words came. I remembered. It was the hymn which had been sung…

For those of certain ages, there are events which forever stay in memory. My mother could tell me where she was when she heard about Pearl Harbor. I remember what I was doing when I heard that President Kennedy had…

Caroline Gwathmey Jones of King and Queen County, Va., was at once family-proud, place-proud and church-proud. She enjoyed sharing stories about the history of the Gwathmeys and the family seat, Canterbury; about her county and its long and illustrious part…

I first heard the word when I was a boy. My grandmother told me about the days when she was a young woman and “the Chautauqua” came and briefly flooded our hometown in South Georgia with culture. There were plays,…

“Don’t call Shiloh! Shiloh is dead!” With those words there begins a story which is legendary in the annals of Virginia Baptist history. When the Portsmouth Baptist Association met in 1871, the clerk called the roll of the churches. When…

In the beginning the Baptist churches were collections of like-minded believers who primarily gathered in what they preferred to call “meeting houses” for worship and secondarily for sustaining fellowship with one another. They also extended Christian concern to the needy…