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By Barbara Francis, HeraldBeat Editor
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Thursday, February 02, 2012 |
Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
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By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor
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Thursday, February 02, 2012 |
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Two new regular columnists were added at the beginning of 2012 to the Religious Herald’s community of opinion writers.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
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A prominent progressive Baptist congregation in Charlotte, N.C., on Jan. 29 weighed into debate over North Carolina’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Myers Park Baptist Church sponsored an adult forum to look at the possible impact of a May 8 referendum.
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By Barbara Francis, Staff Writer
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Friday, January 27, 2012 |
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Missions is part of Hannah Craft’s spiritual DNA, say those who know the 12-year-old well. A member of North Run Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., Craft has always shown enthusiasm for learning about and doing missions, say leaders of the Girls in Action group at North Run. Girls in Action is a Woman’s Missionary Union mission organization for girls in grades 1-6. Last year, Hannah was named Virginia's Outstanding GA.
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By Jim White, Editor
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
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Amid academic pageantry, Baptist historian Bill Leonard was officially installed Jan. 24 as the first Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Named in honor of James and Marilyn Dunn of Winston-Salem, N.C., the endowed chair will provide an on-going Baptist studies faculty presence at the divinity school.
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By Chris Shoemaker
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
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Three hundred thirty-three youth from 12 churches across Virginia stormed the Bluefield College campus Jan. 14-16 for the school’s three-day extreme winter worship adventure known as Winter Blast. some 72 teens made professions of faith during Winter Blast, recently dubbed one of the fastest growing youth retreats in the region.
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By Herald Staff
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Friday, January 20, 2012 |
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A hunger relief project initiated in 2009 by three children and their teacher in a mission education class at a small church on Virginia’s Eastern Shore has mushroomed into a multi-church endeavor which will provide thousands of dollars to help women in impoverished communities around the world achieve their full potential.
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By John Crane, Danville Register & Bee
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Friday, January 20, 2012 |
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It was a brief reunion recently for two women who share a bond reaching back more than 25 years. In 1985 Ann Wright was doing Christian missionary work on Jamaica when she first saw Charila Phillips. Four years old at the time, Phillips still had damage to her face from being scalded by boiling water. Wright was determined to help.
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By Barbara Francis, HeraldBeat Editor
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
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By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor
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Friday, January 20, 2012 |
2012 Heritage Fellows applications open / High school students have essay opportunity
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) -- A former administrator at a prominent North Carolina moderate Baptist church was arrested recently and charged with embezzling more than $136,000 in church funds over a five-year period.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Jan. 17 to reconsider a lower court’s decision barring a North Carolina county from invoking prayers in Jesus’ name at twice-a-month meetings of its main governing body.
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By Alice Horner, Associated Baptist Press
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
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Observing a national holiday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., members of a Baptist church in Baltimore took advantage of their day off from work for service opportunities as a way to live out the legendary minister’s dream. Jan. 16 was the first year for a Day of Service at University Baptist Church.
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PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL: Frappuccino Fellowships By Jim White
Some Christians suffer actual persecution, while American churches debate whether to serve lattes or simply Folgers in order to be more appealing than the church next door.
VIEWPOINT: A secret confession • By Lisa Cole Smith
I don’t “get” a lot of visual art. This is a secret confession, however, so please don’t tell the members of our church or the arts center that is our ministry to the community.
VIEWPOINT: Cultivating 21st century Baptist identity • By Alex Gallimore
It was a desk. I found it one day while digging through a forgotten back closet. That desk has become a powerful symbol of religious identity for me.
VITAL SIGNS: Which parking spot for you? By Bill Wilson
As I work daily in congregations and with clergy, I have a growing sense that humility, as Scripture defines it, is a needed and often missing component of a healthy ministry.
HERITAGE: Faithful teacher in a constant church • By Fred Anderson
Ruth Marsh Dillingham is one of those rare individuals whom the rest of us identify as “a born teacher.” As the oldest of nine children, she likely did lots of practical teaching at home.
TRENDING: Designer faith, part 2 • By John Chandler
George Barna identifies an increase in those who “make up God as they go.” These self-proclaimed believers claim the Christian label but shed their ties to traditional beliefs.
WINN RECOMMENDS • By Winn Collier
Recommended books this time include Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand; What Shall We Say: Evil, Suffering and the Crisis of Faith, by Thomas Long; and The King Jesus Gospel, by Scot McKnight.
OUT LOUD: Quotes from the global media
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