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Editorial: ChatGPT, what’s God’s will for my life?

1 day ago | baptiststandard.com | Eric Black

“What’s God’s will for my life?”I started a conversation with ChatGPT this weekend with this question. And I’m still unsettled by the exchange. I would be even more unsettled by the simple fact I had a “conversation” with an LLM—a large language model—if it weren’t for Siri and Alexa warming us up over the last decade-plus to such a strange thing.
Voices: An epidemic of rude behavior making America sick

1 day ago | baptiststandard.com | Eric Black

The scene is iconic, and if you’ve seen it, you’ll never forget it. Woodrow Call, Augustus McRae and their cowhands arrived in Ogallala, Neb., from Lonesome Dove in far South Texas. Some of the boys went into town for pleasures not available on the trail. Larry McMurtry tells the scene in vivid detail in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, which became the hit television miniseries. The cowboys were gathered in the street as Dish Boggett brushed his prized horse Sugar.
Constance “Connie” Gayle Billinger Davis

2 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

Constance “Connie” Gayle Billinger Davis Constance “Connie” Gayle Billinger Davis of Abilene, teacher and social worker, died May 8. She was 70. She was born in Darnall Army Hospital at Fort Hood on Dec. 20, 1954. After she graduated from Killeen High School, she went on to Baylor University in Waco, graduating in 1975 with a degree in psychology.
Senate bill introduced to move lottery administration

2 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

The Texas lawmaker who authored a bill to abolish the Texas Lottery filed alternative legislation May 13 that would dissolve the Texas Lottery Commission and move regulation of the lottery to another state agency. “If there isn’t enough of an appetite to get rid of the lottery outright, then this bill represents the next best thing,” Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, said as he presented SB 3070 in a Senate Committee on State Affairs hearing, where the bill was left pending.
Voices: Ministry lessons I didn’t learn in seminary

2 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Eric Black

I am grateful for my education at every level. If I were asked to list the most prominent influences in my life, I would list Jesus, my wife Debbie and the blessing of a broad education. I graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary during its heyday. However, my seminary experience did not prepare me for the realities of rural ministry. Unrealistic expectationsI left seminary with unrealistic expectations for myself.
Equip: Resources on the Books of 1 & 2 Timothy

3 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Eric Black

First and Second Timothy are pastoral epistles written by the Apostle Paul to his younger colleague Timothy, focusing on ministry leadership and church structure. Even though they traditionally are attributed to Paul, many scholars believe they were written by someone else after his death. Regardless, these letters have been of great value to church leaders, especially in offering guidance on confronting false teachings, appointing qualified leaders and clarifying the essence of the gospel.
Former Southern Baptist Josh Buice quits G3 Conference

3 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

(RNS)—An influential Calvinist pastor who quit the Southern Baptist Convention after claiming it was too woke and liberal has been suspended by his church for causing controversy online, running fake social media accounts that criticized his church’s elders and other pastors from a conference he ran.
Religious coercion lawsuit in Chicago schools settled

3 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

(RNS)—The Chicago Board of Education and New York’s David Lynch Foundation have agreed to settle a three-year-long class-action lawsuit that alleged public high school students were forced to practice Hindu rituals through the guise of a meditation program. The “Quiet Time” initiative of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace implemented a twice-daily 15-minute meditation session in five Chicago high schools between 2015 and 2019.
Afghans who fled Taliban face repatriation

1 week ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

About 14,000 Afghans who came to the United States to escape the Taliban—including religious minorities who experienced persecution in their homeland—face forced repatriation in less than two weeks. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced April 11 the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Afghan nationals who relocated to the United States, effective May 20. Afghan children receive loving attention at Vila Minhya Pátria, operated by Baptists in Brazil.
Musician Squire Parsons moves on to ‘Sweet Beulah Land’

1 week ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

Squire Parsons Jr., a native of West Virginia and longtime Southern Gospel singer, died May 5. He was 77. Parsons’ father, who was a choir director and deacon at his church, taught his son how to sing using shaped notes. Parsons held a bachelor of science degree in music from West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, where he was trained on the piano and bassoon, and received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1999.