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Fred Anderson shares a Christmas reflection from a former Religious Herald editor.

Fred Anderson shares about Richard M. Bowman, a walking encyclopedia of family lore, local history and Virginia’s past.

“Fred, I find that I have some free time on my hands and I want to paint historical churches.”

Indeed the school, founded by the Baptists, remembers the source of true wisdom and that God’s preserving hand still guides this educational institution.

Fred Anderson details time he spent in England this summer trying to track down Robert Norden, the founder of the first Baptist church in Virginia.

It was a beautiful late spring day in the country. It was prayer-ordered weather for an anniversary gathering with dinner-on-the-grounds under a large tent. It was the 240th anniversary of Upper King & Queen Baptist Church which bears the name of the county in which it is located, a place about 50 miles from Richmond. The old church house was …

Fred Anderson reflects on pastors in Virginia Baptist life who had exceptionally long tenures.

Fred Anderson reviews the lasting and continuing legacy of Baptists in Virginia.

Fred Anderson profiles Miss Burroughs and her incredible work around the turn of the 20th Century.

After a snowy winter in 2014 for much of Virginia, Fred Anderson reflects on how the winter of 1895 affected Virginia Baptist churches around Appomattox.

It is an old story which this historian has told and re-told. It is a love story and it is a lesson in Baptist history, heritage and principles – all wrapped up into one true life story.

By Fred Anderson We are a calendar-oriented people. We keep them on our desks and walls, in our pocketbooks, wallets and checkbooks. We mark them off – not like some prisoner crossing out his days behind bars – but as persons expecting events, challenges, programs, activities, anniversaries and all life brings our way. We turn the calendar to a new …

By Fred Anderson Christmas is a good season for remembering your pastor. Perhaps his coat is a little brown and rusty, maybe his buggy rattles too much, almost surely his bank account is thin and meager. It is so simple and easy a thing for loving hearts to find a way to do good. Can anyone measure the joy which …

For many years November has been the month set aside for the annual gathering of the tribes – the annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. It was not always held in November. In the beginning it was held in the warm and pleasing weather month of June which must have been more conducive for schedules and travel …

Surely a Baptist must have written the entry on Charlotte County in the old WPA travel guide on Virginia published in 1940. Yet 70 years later it may need revisions. “Church customs of the 18th century still prevail in Charlotte,” states the guidebook. “Women are found sitting together on one side of the middle aisle, and men on the other. …