Texas Church Plans Third Annual Trip to Help Ukraine Refugee Children | Baptist Press
For the third consecutive year, volunteers from First Baptist Church in Garland will travel to eastern Europe to bring Christmas joy to Ukrainian refugee children.
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Chris Packham leads calls to rewild Church of England
TV presenter and conservationist Chris Packham has led calls to the Church of England to commit to re-wilding 30 per cent of its land.
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People Needed Food and Each Other. They Found It on a Pastor’s Back Deck. | Baptist Press
FAIRVIEW, North Carolina (BP) – Cane Creek starts as a trickle up in the mountains from Stacy Harris’ home. Garren Creek and Flat Creek are there too. Typically, they create the small, crystal-clear pools trout love and cascading waterfalls that are favorites of Smoky Mountain tourists.
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FIRST-PERSON: The first appearances of angels in Genesis | Baptist Press
You would expect, perhaps, that Moses would tell us something about the creation of angels in Genesis 1. After all, the book says that God created the heavens and the earth, which is a Hebrew way of saying that God made all the stuff.
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Jack Iker, Fmr. Bishop of Diocese That Left Episcopal Church over Gay Marriage, Helped Found ACNA, Dies
Jack Iker, a former bishop who led his Texas-based diocese to leave The Episcopal Church over its support for gay marriage and helped found the Anglican Church in North America, has died at 75
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Gateway Church Doesn’t Honor Money-Back Guarantee on Tithes, Lawsuit Alleges
Gateway Church doesn t honor a money-back guarantee on tithes to unsatisfied congregants despite claims to the contrary made by disgraced founder Robert Morris and other leaders of the Southlake,
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Bring Your Pets to Church, Haitian Immigrant Priest Tells Worshippers. ‘I Am Not Going To Eat Them … I Will Bless Them.”
At St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Jean Beniste, a Haitian immigrant and Episcopal priest turned internet curses into blessings during an annual blessing of the animals, held in honor of St. Francis.
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Black Catholics Lament as Archdiocese of Baltimore Plans to Cut Parishes by Half
A group of longtime black Catholics in Baltimore might end up leaving the Catholic Church as the Archdiocese of Baltimore is set to downsize the number of parishes in the city by half under an
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Church Ministry Allows Families with Children of Special Needs to Worship Together, Cultivate Their Faith
For years, attending church as a family wasn t possible for the Alstons, whose 6-year-old son has autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder That is, until a chance conversation led the
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‘Brotherhood Remnant’ podcast tells former commission’s story | Baptist Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Laymen serve in their churches as deacons and elders, Sunday School teachers, committee members, disaster relief volunteers and in various boards and committees of the Southern Baptist Convention and 40-plus state Baptist conventions.
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50 years later, layman’s legacy of Owen Cooper still shines | Baptist Press
YAZOO CITY, Miss. – Owen Cooper wasn’t a Baptist when he left for college, intending to be a Presbyterian as was his mother. But he happened to “get hold of a Baptist Bible,” leading the young Mississippian into a faith journey that helped shape Southern Baptists during the latter half…
