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Virginia
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By Barbara Francis
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
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A recent survey found that the number of Americans reading electronic books has doubled since 2009. The trend from books printed in ink on paper to those downloaded from a computer is creating change — from the aisles of the large booksellers to the shelves of the church library.
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Virginia
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By Barbara Francis
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
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Following the mandate in James 1:27 for Christ’s followers to care for orphans in need, Community Heights Baptist Church in Southwest Virginia has initiated a ministry it calls 127JUNCTION to mobilize its members to care for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of orphans.
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Virginia
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By Gary Strauss, USA Today
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Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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Residents of a rural Virginia county and some Muslim groups in the state say they’re surprised and angered that the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in an Islamic cemetery in Doswell, a community in Caroline County about 30 miles north of Richmond.
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Virginia
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By Robert Dilday
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |
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Two Baptist associations — one in Virginia’s highly-urbanized Hampton Roads, the other on the state’s rural Eastern Shore — have merged to form a new network of 96 churches. The Bridge Network of Churches was inspired partly by the 17-mile span across the Chesapeake Bay.
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Virginia
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By Robert Dilday
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |
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Israel Galindo, dean and professor of Christian formation and leadership at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, will become associate dean for lifelong learning at Columbia Seminary in Decatur, Ga. Aug. 1. As a faculty member since 1999, Galindo helped create the seminary’s Christian formation concentrations and designed and implemented BTSR’s online program.
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Virginia
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By Robert Dilday
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Monday, May 06, 2013 |
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Since the Richmond Baptist Association voted to retain the membership of a church which ordained a gay man to the ministry, a quarter of the association’s congregations have ended ties or are considering it. But the pastor of the church at the heart of the controversy said May 5 she is committed to “discerning together what the future of the RBA holds.”
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Virginia
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By Herald Staff
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Monday, May 06, 2013 |
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On May 5, pastor Mandy England Cole of Ginter Park Baptist Church sent the following open letter to the “staff, executive council and churches of the Richmond Baptist Association.”
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Virginia
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By Robert Dilday
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Friday, May 03, 2013 |
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John Chandler, leader of the Spence Network, recently released three books — Praying the Kings, Praying the Prophets and Praying Wisdom — aiming to engage leaders more deeply in Scripture. He recently discussed his motivations for writing the books, and his plans for additional ones in the near future.
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