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At 200, missionary movement ponders the future
When Adoniram Judson and four other missionaries sailed on "The Caravan" (pictured) from Salem, Mass., to India, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America’s most potent export: Christianity.
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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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By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor
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Monday, January 16, 2012 |
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Almost exactly two years after a devastating earthquake killed thousands in Haiti, Baptists on the island nation and their international partners dedicated a building Jan. 7 housing a school and orphanage for children impacted by the disaster in Port-au-Prince.
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By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor
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Monday, January 16, 2012 |
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As the nation observed Martin Luther King Day Jan. 16, churches and institutions with Baptist ties across the Mid-Atlantic recalled the legacy of the slain civil rights leader with sermons, lecture series and acts of service in communities stretching from North Carolina to Maryland.
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By Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, Durham Herald-Sun
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Monday, January 16, 2012 |
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James Forbes, pastor emeritus of Riverside Church in New York City, called for jobs and sustenance for all and a new spiritual awakening in the United States during a sermon at Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, N.C., Jan. 15 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s one thing to have the spirit inside you, he said, it’s another to show it through your behavior and policies.
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PERSPECTIVE
VITAL SIGNS: The unbalanced church By Bill Wilson
Nearly everyone agrees that the primary mission of the church is captured in texts like the Great Commission and a host of images and metaphors.
HERITAGE: ABCs of Virginia Baptists • By Fred Anderson
There are some fundamental ABCs about Virginia Baptists, and many Baptists, if not most, are inadequate in their knowledge. Who are Virginia Baptists?
TRENDING: Designer faith, part 1 • By John Chandler
“If World War II-era warbler Kate Smith sang today, her anthem could be Gods Bless America,” USA Today quipped. It’s a remark about America's drift toward “designer faiths.”
VIEWPOINT: Songs about love and death • By Lisa Cole Smith
I feel sadness that I can’t quite shake and it’s strange to me because it all stems from an album I just listened to. It isn't the subject matter; it's the guy who wrote it.
VIEWPOINT: Somebody's daughter • By Derik Hamby
I often wonder about the daughters of those who fear women who preach love and grace. What if their little girls grow up and feel God’s call to the pastorate?
VIEWPOINT: Special treatment hurts both church and state • By Tom Ehrich
It’s time for religion to lose its special treatment in the Constitution and in tax codes. Not because religion has ceased to matter, but because it matters more than ever.
WINN RECOMMENDS • By Winn Collier
Reviews of books include Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson; Just War as Christian Discipleship, by Daniel Bell; and The Word Militant, by Walter Brueggemann.
OUT LOUD: Quotes from the global media
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Regrets attitudes to women pastors
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