Ex-Assistant Principal on Trial in Case of 6-Year-Old Shooter
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Two Christian Colleges Extend Employment Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses
Two Christian colleges located in states that had their same-sex marriage bans struck down by the United States Supreme Court s June 26 decision that nationally legalized same-sex marriage are ...
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After gay marriage: next steps for LGBT activists | Baptist Press
With same-sex marriage now legal in all 50 states, pro-gay activists are shifting their focus to issues like alleged workplace, housing and public accommodations discrimination. Some have even proposed stripping churches of their tax-exempt status and legalizing polygamous marriage.
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FIRST-PERSON: Racial superiority — confronting the truth | Baptist Press
R. Albert Mohler Jr. ponders whether the Southern Baptist Convention's founders were heretics over their view of racial superiority.
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High School Teacher Sues Pennsylvania Union Over Religious Objector Status
A high school teacher who holds a religious objector status to paying union dues has filed a complaint against a Pennsylvania union demanding a freer hand as to where she can donate her dues
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SBC presidents unite, declare stand on marriage | Baptist Press
The living former Southern Baptist Convention presidents elected since 1980 issued a joint statement Wednesday declaring they will stand on the biblical truths concerning marriage despite anticipated legal and civil changes to the definition. Pastor Jack Graham called it “the most critical issue of our times -- religious freedom and the very definition of marriage itself.”
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Reflections from a Chinese orphanage | Baptist Press
Once a five-day-old orphan in China, Josh Owens returns to the children's home from which he was adopted two decades ago. "God was there … not as a perfect balance of ying and yang, not as luck or human sufficiency," Owens writes of being found as an infant in a park. "God was there as He is now here, sovereign and good."
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Living with Regret: How One Man’s Sex Change ‘Fixed Nothing’
Former Olympian Bruce Jenner has been hailed a hero by some in the LGBT community for his recent sex-change surgery and name change to Caitlyn.
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Carver: ‘withhold judgment’ on Marine’s conviction | Baptist Press
Although evangelical commentators have protested the court-martial conviction of a Marine who defied an order to remove a Bible verse from her workstation, the North American Mission Board's executive director of chaplaincy says believers should reserve judgment because there is "much more to this particular story than Scriptures that were just in a public place."
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Converted by love, not ideology: An archbishop’s reflection on Dorothy Day
Last week, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles told scholars at the Dorothy Day Conference at St. Francis University that the social activist was not converted by ideology, but by love.
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Christian Mother Meriam Ibrahim Reveals She Was Heavily Pressured to Deny Christ for Three Days Straight in Prison, but Refused Each Time
Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian mother who was formerly imprisoned for her faith in the Republic of Sudan, revealed Thursday on the National Day of Prayer that she was heavily pressured by
