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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Leslie Caldwell |Marilyn Stewart |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): ERLCFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: PLANO, Texas (BP) – Texas pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham says he believes the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission should be defunded. He made the comments on X the day after a 10 former SBC presidents released a letter expressing their support for the commission.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Leslie Caldwell |Marilyn Stewart |Charles Jones |Scott Barkley
RICHMOND, Va. – International Mission Board trustees approved 65 fully funded missionaries for appointment during their May 21-22 meeting near Richmond. The missionaries approved for appointment will be recognized during a Sending Celebration on Tuesday, June 10, at 10:08 a.m. CDT in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas. The event will be livestreamed on sbcannualmeeting.net.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Marilyn Stewart |Charles Jones |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
MOBILE, Ala. (BP) – First in Fallujah, Iraq, then in Djibouti, Africa, and finally Mobile, Alabama, the Memorial Day Flag Relay (MDFR) has been bringing encouragement and healing to active-duty servicemen, veterans and their families for 20 years. It has also pointed the way to Christ.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Marilyn Stewart |Charles Jones |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Baptist Faith & MessageFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: This piece is a bonus piece in a five-part series leading up to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas. Read previous installments at the following links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. His going cast the shadow over my life which will never be lifted ... – Sanford M.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Michelle Workman |Marilyn Stewart |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Format(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: EDITOR’S NOTE: You can find an extensive list of resources for serving people with special needs at sbc.net. Did you know the stress level of mothers who have a child with special needs has been compared to that of combat soldiers? Often, families of those with disabilities feel hidden within faith communities because they’re simply not there or not included in the activities.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Michelle Workman |Marilyn Stewart |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – A ballot initiative in Florida would drastically loosen the state’s restrictions on abortions, according to Southern Baptist leaders and other pro-life advocates who are highly critical of the measure and are asking voters to reject it. Florida currently bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, a restriction that took effect earlier this year. Amendment 4, known as the “Right to Abortion Initiative,” would instead allow for abortions up to viability, or around 24 weeks.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
fggam.org | Dewey Moede |Marilyn Stewart
Baptist PressBy , posted October 23, 2024 in Discipleship, EducationCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BP) – Daniel Cho’s 20-minute bike ride from home four days a week ends at Harvard University where he serves as a bi-vocational Southern Baptist chaplain. In a place where the Bible is often seen as irrelevant, Cho meets one on one with students – including those from other faiths or no faith – to help them see Scripture in a new light.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Michelle Workman |Marilyn Stewart |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): EducationFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) – A U.S. district judge heard arguments Oct. 21 over whether Louisiana public schools should be required to post the Ten Commandments prominently in each classroom, as the Legislature now stipulates. In Oklahoma, several organizations are suing the State Board of Education over its mandate that the Bible be incorporated in public school lessons in grades five through 12 statewide.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Michelle Workman |Marilyn Stewart |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has moved “from instability to stability, from a time of crisis and challenge to a time of hopefulness … only because of God’s goodness and grace to this institution,” President David S. Dockery told the board of trustees Oct. 23 in its fall meeting during which trustees approved two task team reports, elected and promoted a faculty member, and participated in a campus prayer walk with faculty, students, and staff.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Marilyn Stewart |Chris Turner |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Baptist Press photographers Jim and Carol Veneman spent four days documenting the work of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers and Send Relief in the wake of Hurricane Milton. View Gallery #1 here.
