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Oct 28, 2024 | 
texanonline.net | Rob Collingsworth |Diana Chandler |Jayson Larson
I recently texted nearly 150 pastors asking them one question: What are the things that are most meaningful and encouraging in your role as a pastor? The sample size was broad—from men serving their very first church to seasoned, retired pastors. Church size ranged from membership around 100 into the tens of thousands.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Turner |Lonnie Wilkey |Rob Collingsworth |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Disaster ReliefFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: LIMESTONE, Tenn. – Craig Ponder’s first impression of the ATV four-wheeler gang congregating in the church’s parking lot was not good. “I thought they were a bunch of tourists coming to check out the flood damage caused by Hurricane Helene,” he said. “I was wrong, and I’ve since apologized.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Lonnie Wilkey |Rob Collingsworth |Shane Pruitt |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Disaster ReliefFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: I joined the staff of the Baptist and Reflector in 1988. A year later, Hurricane Hugo struck the coast of South Carolina, causing billions of dollars of damage. It is one of the worst hurricanes in the history of the state and at the time was the most costly hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean, according to weather.com.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Rob Collingsworth |Shane Pruitt |Henry Durand |Scott Barkley
Last week I texted nearly 150 pastors, asking them one question: what are the things that are most meaningful and encouraging in your role as a pastor? The sample size was broad—from men serving their very first church to seasoned, retired pastors. Church size ranged from membership around 100 into the tens of thousands.
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May 18, 2023 | 
brnow.org | Rob Collingsworth
Since the constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845, our resolutions process has often drawn more attention than much of the other business we conduct. Resolutions serve as non-binding statements that reflect the opinion of the messengers, but they can guide the way our entities function and testify to the world about issues related to our work as a convention of churches as well as critical matters of the day.
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May 18, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Rob Collingsworth |Tessa Sanchez |Chad Austin |Scott Barkley
BOULDER, Colo. (BP) – When a woman comes to Warren Hern for an abortion, the doctor performs a procedure that takes three or four days. Following an ultrasound, he continues by “inducing fetal demise,” he told The Atlantic magazine. Hern performs the rarest of abortion procedures in the U.S., ending pregnancies that have surpassed 20 weeks’ gestation and offering the procedure throughout the third trimester of pregnancy.
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May 18, 2023 | 
kentuckytoday.com | Rob Collingsworth
Since the constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845, our resolutions process has often drawn more attention than much of the other business we conduct. Resolutions serve as non-binding statements that reflect the opinion of the messengers, but they can guide the way our entities function and testify to the world about issues related to our work as a convention of churches as well as critical matters of the day.
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May 18, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | daniel darling |Leslie Caldwell |Rob Collingsworth |Scott Barkley
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday (May 17) over whether the Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone should be revoked more than two decades after it was granted. The case is likely to wind up at the Supreme Court, which already intervened to keep the drug available while the legal fight winds through the courts. The high court’s decision came after a Texas-based judge revoked the drug’s approval.
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May 18, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | daniel darling |Leslie Caldwell |Rob Collingsworth |Scott Barkley
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt of Agents of Grace: How to Bridge Divides and Love as Jesus Loves. It is used with permission. One of my favorite books is the narrative nonfiction story Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown. I first read it several years after a recommendation from a friend. I know almost nothing about crew, a sport that has never piqued my interest.
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May 18, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Leslie Caldwell |Rob Collingsworth |Tessa Sanchez |Scott Barkley
Editor’s Note: In support of the sixth strategic action of Vision 2025 adopted by messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting, Baptist Press will continue to report every instance of sexual abuse related to Southern Baptist churches, entities, institutions or leaders of which we are made aware.
