New Mexico Children’s Home Offering Seminary for Houseparents | Baptist Press
PORTALES, N.M. (BP) – Some ideas are so simple, so needed and so good, it’s hard to figure out why it took so long to think of them.
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FIRST-PERSON: The church still matters | Baptist Press
I’ve never seen the idea of the church so marginalized in all my lifetime. The secular world mocks the church and the Christian world devalues the church. The local church is seen, even by believers, as unnecessary and antiquated and optional. You can kind of understand the issues perhaps. After…
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Addison resigns from SBC Executive Committee staff | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) – Greg Addison, executive vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, is stepping down. Addison notified Ronnie Floyd, SBC EC president and CEO, of his intention to step down on Oct. 15, according to an email sent to EC trustees and staff on Wednesday (Oct. 20).
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Former EC chair Mike Stone sues former ERLC president Russell Moore | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) -- In a lawsuit filed Monday (Oct. 18), former SBC Executive Committee chairman Mike Stone alleges he has “suffered a tremendous loss in professional cultivation and reputational standing, decreased future earning power…and serious mental and emotional injury in the form of extreme public embarrassment, stress, anxiety, and fear”…
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Nearly half of PCUSA ministers say ‘fatigue’ a daily part of their lives, few take sabbaticals: survey
Nearly half of surveyed clergy in the Presbyterian Church (USA) report experiencing fatigue on a regular basis — yet few take sabbaticals, according to a newly released report that is part of a series of surveys on ministers in the denomination.
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Tony Evans shares how to reclaim spiritual authority, identify signs of ‘demonic control’
Pastor Tony Evans said God uses the devil to show Christians who they really are, and Christ is ready to come to the rescue as long as His followers draw near and pursue an intimate relationship with Him.
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After Seminary Shutdowns, Russia Enacts Ministry Training Regulations
New law puts additional requirements on any religious leader who was trained abroad.
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Archbishop of York joins peers in remembering ‘deeply religious’ Sir David Amess
Sir David Amess has been remembered by peers in the House of Lords as a devoted MP whose Christian faith underpinned everything he did.
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FIRST-PERSON: On humility | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) – Nobody really knows how to be humble.
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Birmingham association invests in church revitalization | Baptist Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – As Chris Crain met with the search team for the Birmingham Baptist Association in 2018, he was clear on a focus that would be at the heart of his leadership should he become the group’s next executive director.
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Pope expresses sadness over attacks in Britain, Norway and Afghanistan
Pope Francis has spoken of his closeness to victims of attacks in Britain, Norway and Afghanistan and their families.
