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EDITORIAL: Celebrating what never happened
Religious Herald
By Jim White   
Sunday, September 30, 2012

In celebrating a marriage that never happened, Aunt Ida realizes that sometimes it’s easier to please God than to please humans, who have a knack of making things more complicated than they need to be. She thinks that's probably true in churches, too.

 
EDITORIAL: WMUV continues ministry to Native Americans
Religious Herald
By Jim White   
Thursday, September 13, 2012

While the GOP and the Democrats continue their on-going debate about the role of government in easing the plight of the poor, Women’s Missionary Union of Virginia has steadfastly continued ministry to some of our nation’s poorest people. Through the years we have reported these mission endeavors.

 
UPDATED EDITORIAL: Just another campaign?
Religious Herald
By Herald Staff   
Friday, August 31, 2012

Two paragraphs in Jim White's editorial, "Just another campaign," have been clarified. To read the updated material, which is italized, go here.

 
EDITORIAL: Just another campaign?
Religious Herald
By Jim White   
Thursday, August 30, 2012

We Americans are accustomed to the quadrennial ritual of presidential campaigns, and even though most of us abhor the mud-slinging and muckraking, through it all we somehow decide on the candidate for whom to cast our ballot. Still, the candidates are not making it easy.

 
EDITORIAL: New controversy in the SBC?
Religious Herald
By Jim White   
Friday, August 17, 2012
According to research done by LifeWay and others, the next big controversy in Baptist life will be over Reformed theology, popularly called “Calvinism.” Southern Baptist Convention leadership has become concerned enough to name a 16-member advisory team to address the issue.
 
EDITORIAL: It’s time for the dreaded ‘talk’
Religious Herald
By Jim White   
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Like a procrastinating parent reluctant to have “the talk,” I’ve been putting off a conversation I knew we needed to have. It’s the old “good news-bad news” conundrum. First, the bad news: Beginning October 1, we are having to raise our annual subscription rates to $19.
 
EDITORIAL: Freeh indeed! Penn State’s sex scandal and implications for the church
Religious Herald
By Jim White   
Saturday, July 21, 2012
The release of the Freeh report has focused attention once again to the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. According to the report authored by former FBI director Louis Freeh, university officials at the highest level used their influence to cover up Sandusky’s abuse of boys.
 
EDITORIAL: Celebrating America
Religious Herald
By Jim White   
Friday, July 06, 2012
Can there be a better time than the days surrounding July 4th to contemplate the values and mysteries of being American? The timing has put me in a patriotic frame of mind and I cannot help but express my feelings on the subject of my country. In this, perhaps I may give voice to what is in many of your hearts, too.
 
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MICHAEL PARNELL
Two films portray search for identity




LISA COLE SMITH
Time for a vibrant imagination




JIM WHITE
The nation's mean-spirited discourse seeps into churches



ALEX GALLIMORE
A connecting tool turns divisive


BILL WILSON
A desperate need

WINN COLLIER
Two recommendations

FRED ANDERSON
Worth the conversation

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• Constantine's cross: Should Christians retain a foothold in the emperor's palace? | Economist, 5/21

• Freedom of religion scarce in Iran, China, says State Department | Washington Times, 5/20

• Church of Scotland votes to allow gay ministers | Guardian, 5/20

• Evangelical weakness in gay Boy Scouts debate could hurt GOP | Washington Times, 5/20

• Supreme Court will hear church-state case over prayers at public meetings | Washington Post, 5/20

• Billy Graham isn't finished preaching yet | Raleigh News & Observer, 5/20

• A British strand of Islam is emerging as more people become converts | Economist, 5/18

• Texas legislature passes 'Merry Christmas bill' aimed at giving public schools more leeway to observe traditional winter celebrations | Texas Tribune, 5/17

• Seminary graduates not always ministering from the pulpit | Washington Post, 5/17

• Church of Scotland revises controversial Israel report | BBC, 5/17

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