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RENDER TO CAESAR: Some Baptists feel ‘caught in the middle’
Posted: 6/22/07
RENDER TO CAESAR:
Some Baptists feel ‘caught in the middle’By Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
It may look dead, but it’s really just evolving—even though its members might not like that word. And it may be developing into something its founders wouldn’t recognize.
That’s what some experts say about the future of the Religious Right as a political movement. And even many very conservative Southern Baptists are part of the trend.
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• Pastors challenged to link faith, society in their sermons
• Pulpit politics run risk for churches
• 'Red Letter Christians' a growing political force
• Senator asserts global warming divides, distracts evangelicals from core issues06/22/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Senator asserts global warming divides, distracts evangelicals from core issues
Posted: 6/22/07
Senator asserts global warming divides,
distracts evangelicals from core issuesBy Daniel Burke
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON—Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., criticized efforts to enlist evangelicals to fight global warming as a “brilliant idea to divide and conquer” and distract them from “core values issues.”
Inhofe, who has been highly critical of climate change “alarmists,” made his remarks during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee dedicated to religious views on global warming.
See related articles:
• RENDER TO CAESAR: Some Baptists feel 'caught in the middle'
• Following Scripture not easy recipe for political choices, ethicists insist
• Pastors challenged to link faith, society in their sermons
• Pulpit politics run risk for churches
• 'Red Letter Christians' a growing political force
• Senator asserts global warming divides, distracts evangelicals from core issues06/22/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 6/22/07
Texas Tidbits
Communications interns on the job. Three Baylor University students are serving as Texas Baptist communications interns 12 weeks this summer in a cooperative venture involving the Baptist Standard, the Baptist General Convention of Texas communications team and the Buckner International communications office. Jessica Dooley of Ardmore, Okla., Whitney Farr of Caddo Mills and Rebekah Hardage of Waco are serving four weeks in each office. Matt Kennedy of Midlothian, a recent Baylor graduate, is working as an intern with Associated Baptist Press, based out of the Baptist Standard office.
Amarillo hospital dedicates new tower. Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System recently dedicated its new six-story Ware Tower. The new wing was the result of three years of extensive planning and construction. The building permit for the $60 million facility reportedly was the largest ever granted in Amarillo.
06/22/2007 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Together, Texas Baptists touch lives
Posted: 6/22/07
TOGETHER:
Together, Texas Baptists touch livesHere’s a potpourri of reasons to rejoice in the ministries we are able to do together as Texas Baptists:
• Camps. Each year, between 6,000 and 7,000 older children and youth are saved on the 31 campgrounds that relate to our convention. Pray for all those who administer the camps and all the church leaders who go as sponsors.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
An exciting development over the last five years has been the camp program for Asian young people sponsored by our intercultural ministry. This year’s camp was the largest, with 240 campers, sponsors and staff attending. All the recreation and media staff were Asian-American young people who have been “raised up” in the previous years of camp. There were seven professions of faith, 19 rededications and 10 commitments to full-time ministry.
For the first time, we had an African camp. Forty students and sponsors from Nigeria and Kenya participated. There were six professions of faith, several rededications and at least one commitment to vocational ministry.
06/22/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Music cuts across language, cultural barriers in Japan
Posted: 6/22/07
Singing "O Happy Day," Douglas Edwards of Minnehulla Baptist Church in Goliad performs solo with the Texas Voices of Praise Choir. (Photos by Barbara Bedrick/BGCT) Music cuts across language,
cultural barriers in JapanBy Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
TOKYO, Japan—Music is proving to be the universal language as Texas Baptists from 10 African American churches performed for a crowd of 500 Japanese people at a concert hall near Toyko June 20.
Volunteers with the group said they could see the Japanese people connecting with the music by the Texas Voices of Praise Choir—and even singing along with the lyrics.
06/22/2007 - By John Rutledge
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The recycle of clergy abuse
Posted: 6/08/07
The recycle of clergy abuse
By Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press
Secrecy about clergy sexual abuse may protect an abuser’s current church from embarrassment but often at the expense of his next church—and its children.
Like many small, rural congregations that find themselves without a pastor, East Bonne Terre Baptist Church had a small budget and few options. So when church members heard there was a new preacher in the area who was seeking a pulpit, it looked like God’s timing.
06/21/2007 - By John Rutledge
