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Church swims upstream by moving downtown
Posted: 8/31/07
Church swims upstream by moving downtown
By Rebekah Hardage
Communications Intern
WACO—Migration from downtowns to the suburbs doesn’t seem to be slowing down. And because families are moving to the suburbs, churches are moving there too. But one church in Waco is swimming upstream by relocating downtown.
Acts Christian Fellowship, a Baptist church, recently began renovation of property in downtown Waco where the church plans to turn a warehouse into a sanctuary.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Faith Digest
Posted: 8/31/07
Faith Digest
Colorado megachurch approves Haggard’s successor. New Life Church, the Colorado megachurch whose leader Ted Haggard was dismissed last year after a sex and drug scandal, has approved a new senior pastor. Brady Boyd, pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, received more than 95 percent approval in a vote by the Colorado Springs congregation, a church secretary/treasurer announced in a message posted on New Life’s website.
Kennedy retires from Florida church. D. James Kennedy, who used his Florida-based television ministry to establish himself as a leading voice for religious conservatives, has retired from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale. Kennedy, 76, suffered a cardiac arrest in late December and has not returned to his pulpit of more than 48 years since falling ill. Kennedy started the congregation, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America, in 1959. He became a well-known Christian broadcaster through his presidency of Coral Ridge Ministries, which broadcast his sermons. He also pioneered the Evangelism Explosion personal Christian witness training.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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New forum’s ambitious goal—get the world’s Christians talking
Posted: 8/31/07
New forum’s ambitious goal
—get the world’s Christians talkingBy Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)—Like cousins at a big family reunion, representatives of the various streams of Christianity from across the globe will gather this fall near Nairobi, Kenya.
The Global Christian Forum is a rare opportunity for Christians who don’t always speak to each other—and in some cases have never met—to spend a few days together and simply get to know one another.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 8/31/07
Texas Baptist Forum
Moment of silence
The story about the “moment of silence” law in public schools (Aug. 20) is simply not believable. Every honest person knows the real motivation for such a requirement: It is an obvious and unconstitutional backdoor attempt to inject religion into the public schools.
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“Children rarely embrace spiritual principles and practices that their parents fail to demonstrate in their lifestyle.”
George Barna
Religion-trends reseacher (BP)“Now that reading has become more difficult, I probably read the Bible less but pray more. Of course, over the years, I’ve memorized many passages from the Bible, and I’m especially thankful now that I did this. I wish we gave more attention to Bible memorization in our churches today.”
Billy Graham
Evangelist (Minneapolis Star Tribune/RNS)“Watching one of your own children die is horrible, and many people in Africa have experienced that. Equal to that is knowing you are going to die and not being able to care for your children. This is why women in the U.S. are getting so involved in AIDS. We can look at women in Africa and realize they are just like us.”
Lynne Hybels
Co-founder of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., on the global AIDS crisis (Sojourners/RNS)The common-sense remedy for a situation like this is not proper and thorough training for teachers. The solution is as Jesus commanded in Matthew 6:5-6. Apparently, what Jesus commanded is not sufficient for Texas.
Public school teachers can teach students about all of the religions of the world, but they have no business explaining anything about “prayer” to their students. “Prayer” is understood by all as a matter of religion, and it is dishonest to assert otherwise.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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BGCT sends $20,000 to help Minnesota flood victims
Posted: 8/31/07
BGCT sends $20,000 to help
Minnesota flood victimsBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS—The Baptist General Convention of Texas has sent $20,000 to the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention to help victims of flooding in southeastern Minnesota.
Widespread flooding damaged more than 4,500 homes in the region. At least 243 homes were destroyed, and seven people died.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Investors with moral agenda are bullish on faith-based mutual funds
Posted: 8/31/07
Investors with moral agenda are
bullish on faith-based mutual fundsBy G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)—Religious activists with a moral agenda for corporate America used to rely primarily on consumer boycotts and sympathetic lawmakers to get Wall Street’s attention. But now their toolbox is growing—and there’s a lot more money in it.
Over the past decade, America’s market for religious investment products has grown by more than 3,500 percent, according to data from fund tracker Morningstar.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Congregations aid flooded church in Oklahoma
Posted: 8/31/07
Congregations aid flooded church in Oklahoma
By Carla Wynn Davis
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
CHICKASHA, Okla.—Members of Cowboy Country Church in Chickasha, Okla., put hours of work into transforming an old building into their new church home. But after worshipping there just one Sunday, the building became uninhabitable.
The new church became infested with mold after flooding from Tropical Storm Erin, which blew through Chickasha Aug. 18-19.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Louisiana College to open law school named for SBC fundamentalist leader
Posted: 8/31/07
Louisiana College to open law school
named for SBC fundamentalist leaderBy Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press
PINEVILLE, La. (ABP)—Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College will establish a new “biblical” law school named after Paul Pressler, the Texas appeals-court judge better known for leading the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The college hopes to open the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law in 2009, said Joe Aguillard, president of the 1,000-student school. The school wants to have as many as 40 students in the first year and grow to 300, he said.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
