Heritage

Henry Williams was a prominent church and civic figure in the post-Civil War period of Virginia and even entered the field of politics on the local level. He created his own Baptist newspaper and its masthead read The Shiloh Herald….

For the last two years my associate and I have been sifting through an estimated 25,000 letters to and from George White McDaniel, a prominent 20th-century minister and denominational leader, as I have been writing his biography. McDaniel died of…

Great events assume a life of their own. It is true with weddings. They start small with the excitement of an engagement and little by little the plans develop. So it is with an event planned for three days in…

The times were hard. The Southern Baptist Convention attempted its first mammoth financial campaign. The name told just how big it was: the 75 Million Campaign. It was a bold and ambitious program over a five-year period to undergird the…

Anyone who has ever lived in an old house knows that it requires periodic upkeep. Some things have to be replaced. Sometimes new parts are installed to make it energy efficient. And once in a while an old house requires…

“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”  (John 3:36) Throughout 2012 and now in 2013, Virginia Baptists have been engaged in the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation through a landmark exhibit which continues…

She was first class. She had the best posture, and when she stood on a platform poised to speak, she was every inch a commanding presence. And then there was her fair and beautiful complexion from her heritage as a…

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…