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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Westbrook to serve as executive director State Convention of Baptists in Ohio | Baptist Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) – In a called meeting of the Ohio Mission Council, Ohio Baptists called Jeremy Westbrook as executive director-treasurer of the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio. Westbrook will begin the role Aug. 1.
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‘Taking back the rainbow’: Freedom March declares move of God among ex-LGBT people
Men and women who once lived and identified as part of the LGBT community are confident that a rainbow revival is at hand as approximately 200 marched in the Freedom March over the weekend and shared testimonies of how Jesus transformed their lives.
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FIRST-PERSON: Praying for a new college missionary movement | Baptist Press
TIGERVILLE, S.C. (BP) -- Historians call the final quarter of the 19th century the Gilded Age, a term originally coined by Mark Twain. It was an era characterized by unprecedented industrialization, spurred on especially by the expansion of the railroad industry. It was the age of tycoons, monopolies, mass immigration,…
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Georgia Baptists helping COVID-19 victims in India where pandemic is raging | Baptist Press
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) – Heartbreaking images from India show human suffering on a scale beyond anything most people have ever seen as the COVID-19 pandemic races through a nation of 1.3 billion people.
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California churches celebrate win for religious liberty as state agrees to pay $2.1M over lockdown battles
Churches in California are celebrating their victory for religious freedom after a religious freedom legal group secured settlements requiring the state to pay 2 1 million in attorneys fees to a ...
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A Statement from Ronnie Floyd | Baptist Press
I have received a copy of the letter from former ERLC president Russell Moore to our current SBC president J.D. Greear. Some of the matters referenced occurred prior to my coming here in this role. For those matters of which I was present, I do not have the same recollection…
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Mike Stone says leaked Russell Moore letter an attempt to sway SBC presidential election
A leaked letter from Russell Moore, the former head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm, details what he says is a toxic culture of protecting sexual abusers in churches and allowing racial prejudice. But Mike Stone, a leading candidate running for SBC president, believes the letter's release is an attempt to sway the upcoming election.
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California to pay $2M church legal fees over virus closures | Baptist Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The state of California has agreed not to impose greater coronavirus restrictions on church gatherings than it does on retail establishments in a pair of settlements that provide more than $2 million in fees to lawyers who challenged the rules as a violation of religious freedom.
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SBC DIGEST: Shuttles available for messengers at annual meeting; SWBTS announces leadership changes | Baptist Press
Shuttle services available for messengers at annual meeting By Scott Barkley NASHVILLE (BP) – Messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting who chose to keep their hotel rooms at or near the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center have complimentary shuttle options June 13-16 for transportation to and from the Music City…
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Church planter ‘broken … for the people of Utah’ | Baptist Press
EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah – Barry Smith, bi-vocational pastor at Pioneer Community Church, is in his second attempt to plant a church southwest of Salt Lake City.
