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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Randy Davis |Meredith Flynn |Lisa Misner |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): Baptist Faith & MessageFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: Randy C. Davis is executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Yale University was founded because Harvard University was deemed too liberal. How ironic that is, considering both universities are lightyears away from their founding principles.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Meredith Flynn |Lisa Misner |Mark Maynard |Scott Barkley
WEST CHICAGO, Ill. – “I’ve always looked at the book of Proverbs as a rule book,” Gina Caithamer mused during a break at Lifeway’s In the Word event, April 25-26. “If you follow these, you’re going to live a pretty good life.”But as Bible teacher Jen Wilkin reminded nearly 1,400 women in Chicagoland, wisdom isn’t transactional. It’s not a set of good choices that yields positive outcomes. In fact, wisdom isn’t nearly as concerned with decision-making as we often think it is.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Lisa Misner |Mark Maynard |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
CHATHAM, Ill. –A woman drove her SUV through the site of an afterschool program Monday afternoon (April 28), killing three children and one young adult and injuring six others. Chatham Baptist Church, which sits across the street from the YNOT Outdoor Kids Camp, served as a reunification site for families. “It was amazing to see how the Chatham Baptist church family and community rallied together to show love and compassion in such a terrible situation,” said Pastor Ahron Cooney.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Lisa Misner |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – The day after a settlement was announced in a dispute between Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its former president Adam Greenway, Greenway released a statement taking issue with the seminary’s “characterizations of the motivations” behind his overture toward a settlement. On Monday (Sept.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Lisa Misner |Brandon Porter |Scott Barkley
NASHVILLE (BP) – The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has sent a letter urging Congress to consider the priorities of Southern Baptists as funding negotiations for the 2025 fiscal year continue. The letter, released Monday (Sept. 9), highlights several of the entity’s priorities for the upcoming 2025 appropriations bills (the 12 bills which annually fund the government).
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Lisa Misner |Brandon Porter |Kristen Sosebee |Scott Barkley
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A circuit judge in Springfield has ruled against the Illinois Baptist State Association in a suit to protect IBSA from requirements to provide employees with insurance benefits that cover abortion. The ruling, saying the Illinois Reproductive Health Act did not violate IBSA’s religious freedom, came more than four years after IBSA filed suit.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
religionunplugged.com | Lisa Misner
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois General Assembly continues to find new ways to further enshrine abortion into law. Within the last month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed one bill requiring insurance companies to provide full coverage for abortions and another making abortions a protected human rights issue.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Adelle M. Banks |Eric Reed |Lisa Misner |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): SportsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (BP) — For all the San Francisco 49ers’ historical success, Joshua Pizarro is among those adult fans who have experienced more frustration than anything. It’s a case of not-quite the right place in not-quite the right time. Joe Montana had led the 49ers to two Super Bowl wins in 1982 and ’85 before Pizarro was born. As a toddler, he wouldn’t remember The Drive that secured a third Super Bowl win in 1989.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Adelle M. Banks |Eric Reed |Lisa Misner |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): CultureFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has banned gender transitions for minors and restricted biological males from participation on female sports teams . The state’s Senate followed the House in overriding Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of the bill designed to protect minors from harmful medications and surgeries. The Republican-dominated Senate voted to override the veto Wednesday (Jan. 26).
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Adelle M. Banks |Eric Reed |Lisa Misner |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): Mental HealthFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: Danny Forshee is president of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and pastor of Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin. Mental health and wholeness are important topics to me. God has helped me so much and used people in my life to lift me from anxiety and depression, and I love to help others come out of their doldrums. So many in our world are depressed and in desperate need of hope.
