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Blogging pastor lauded for defending fired female seminary professor
Posted: 12/21/07
Blogging pastor lauded for defending
fired female seminary professorBy John Pierce
Baptists Today
MINNEAPOLIS (ABP)—One of Southern Baptists’ most outspoken pastors has been recognized for his defense of women—even though he does not believe women should serve as pastors.
Wade Burleson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Okla., and former president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, recently received the Priscilla and Aquila Award from Christians for Biblical Equality.
12/21/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Board voting on Daehnert as interim executive director
Posted: 12/20/07
Board voting on Daehnert
as interim executive directorBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Jan Daehnert, a retired Baptist Building employee who led the state convention’s intentional interim pastor program several years, has been recommended as interim executive director for the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board.
Board directors are casting e-mail ballots beginning today. If elected, Daehnert will start work in January, meeting with Executive Board staff. He will begin service as interim executive director when Charles Wade retires Jan. 31 and will continue in that role until a new executive director assumes duties.
Jan Daehnert 12/20/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Fair-trade items offer Christmas gifts with a conscience
Posted: 12/14/07
Fair-trade items offer
Christmas gifts with a conscienceBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
NEW YORK (ABP)—What’s the perfect revenge for the flannel-lined hot-water bottle Aunt Sharon gave you last year? Or the Michael Bolton CD from your brother-in-law?
Maybe a toilet. Or an ox. A bag of seeds would work, for that matter.
12/17/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Happy New Year? For Christians it began with Advent
Posted: 12/14/07
For some Christians, following a calendar common to Christ’s followers through the centuries rather than one dictated by greeting-card companies constitutes an act of radical, counter-cultural discipleship. Happy New Year?
For Christians it began with AdventBy Jennifer Harris
Missouri Word & Way
When does the New Year begin? For Christians observing the church calendar, the new year began Dec. 2, with the start of the Advent season.
The liturgical church year is an “or-derly way to look at the full scope of Christ-ian themes in a year-long fashion,” said John Baker, pastor of First Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo.
12/17/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Missouri Baptist rift widens when leaders restrict funding for church starts
Posted: 12/17/07
Missouri Baptist rift widens when leaders
restrict funding for church startsBy Vicki Brown
Associated Baptist Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP)—A decision by Missouri Baptist Convention leaders to cut off funding for certain new church starts has set off a firestorm of protest and further widened a rift among conservative Baptists in the state.
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board members approved a measure at their December meeting to withdraw funding and other assistance to church plants affiliated with the Acts 29 Network. The regularly scheduled board meeting was truncated due to an impending ice storm.
12/17/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Christian motorcyclists and mudders bring Christmas cheer in Beaumont
Posted: 12/14/07
Kristin Bumbera, 20, who finished the season second in points, racing ASA Late Models at Houston Motor Sports Park, visits the Children's Village with younger brother Boyd, 9, who also races. Christian motorcyclists and mudders
bring Christmas cheer in BeaumontBy Analiz González
Buckner International
EAUMONT—Santa Claus on a fire truck led a parade of bikers, 4X4s and hot rods to a crowd of waiting children in front of Buckner Children’s Village.
The crowd from the residential children’s home and the Buckner foster care program rode the vehicles, voted for their favorites and then went mudding on Buckner property hosed down by the fire department with 30,000 gallons of water.
Advent: Red Letter Days
• Happy New Year? For Christians it began with Advent
• Christian motorcyclists and mudders bring Christmas cheer in Beaumont
• Churches push Advent Conspiracy to teach real giving
• Fair-trade items offer Christmas gifts with a conscience
• Christmas brighter for children of military families, thanks to UMHB student project
• For some, happy holidays means no gifts
• International students share Christmas joy
• Who were those “wise men from the East” bearing gifts?
• 2nd Opinion: The two sides of advent
• What if Christmas had not come?
• Finding the ‘spirit of Christmas'12/14/2007 - By John Rutledge
