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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.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Adelle M. Banks |Eric Reed |Lisa Misner |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Share this post: Recently, our young adults spent their Winter Retreat focusing on reading the Bible together aloud. No special speaker, no DVD teaching. They simply gathered and read as much of the New Testament as possible over the weekend. They read through I Corinthians, completing 149 chapters. They have 111 to go. Good for them, for Bible engagement makes a difference in our lives.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Adelle M. Banks |Eric Reed |Lisa Misner |Scott Barkley
JUPITER, Fla. (BP) – The beginning of what promises to be a contentious political season isn’t very reassuring for those concerned with a rise in anxiety. Ninety percent of the public feels there is a mental health crisis, as shown by the need to bring in reserves to meet the demand for mental health care. Author, podcaster and radio host Brant Hansen understands the concern, but also the need to acknowledge the role of a growing relationship with Christ as the solution.
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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: WASHINGTON (BP) – More than half of religiously unaffiliated Americans, identified as ‘Nones,” say they don’t like organized religion or have been mistreated by religious people, Pew Research said Jan. 24. Specifically, 55 percent of Nones cited one of the two factors in explaining their reason for being nonreligious.
