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  Religious leaders challenging anti-Muslim rhetoric, violence

  Against a background of mounting anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence, Baptist and other religious leaders spoke out Aug. 30 against Islamophobia and urged federal officials to take a more proactive role in safeguarding Muslims’ civil rights.

  08/30/2010 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  Nathan Webb, a senior at Lumberton High School, won the grand prize in this year’s Religious Liberty Essay Scholarship Contest, sponsored by the Religious Liberty Council of the Baptist Joint Committee.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

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  Seminary president says evolution ‘incompatible’ with Christian faith

  Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., says evolution and Christianity are not compatible.

  08/25/2010 - By Administrator

• Lumberton youth pens prize-winning essay

  Nathan Webb, a senior at Lumberton High School, won the grand prize in this year’s Religious Liberty Essay Scholarship Contest, sponsored by the Religious Liberty Council of the Baptist Joint Committee.

  08/23/2010 - By Administrator

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  Controversial theologian Clark Pinnock dies

  Clark Pinnock, an influential theologian whose spiritual pilgrimage led from a fiery fundamentalism as a young professor to an openness that caused some to brand him a heretic, died Aug. 15 of a heart attack.

  08/18/2010 - By Administrator

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  BWA leaders focus on diversity, justice, development

  The BWA’s first global congress since its 2005 centennial and last year’s 400th anniversary of the beginning of the Baptist movement revealed an ever-more-diverse global fellowship poised to tackle injustice and poverty.

  08/06/2010 - By Administrator

• Preacher’s alter-ego a superhero wrestler in ‘The Masked Saint’

  Chris Whaley, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Longwood, Fla., wrestled professionally from 1978 until 1988 as "The Saint." Whaley drew from experiences both in the ministry and the ring to create a fictional superhero in The Masked Saint, published by Tate Publishing.

  08/06/2010 - By Administrator

• Texans tapped for BWA service

  The Baptist World Alliance selected about two dozen Texas Baptists for service on the global organization’s committees and commissions during the 20th Baptist World Congress this summer.

  08/03/2010 - By Administrator

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  Group that demanded apology over view of women’s roles still waiting

  An organizer of a recent women's-rights convention for evangelical Christians said the group is still awaiting a response more than a week after demanding a public apology from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood for teaching they say is harmful to women.

  08/03/2010 - By Administrator

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  BWAid leader reflects on 20 years of relief and development

  Standing in the exhibit hall during the Baptist World Congress in Honolulu, Paul Montacute surveys the array of displays and smiles with delight.

  08/01/2010 - By Marv Knox

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  Holy Spirit transforms communities, creation African Baptist says

  Christians who listen to the Holy Spirit will experience transformation and become agents of transformation, an African Baptist leader told the Baptist World Congress.

  08/01/2010 - By Marv Knox

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  Become ‘jubilee people,’ pastor tells world Baptists

  Christians are called to join Jesus as “jubilee people,” Australian pastor Allan Demond told participants at the 20th Baptist World Congress in Honolulu July 31.

  08/01/2010 - By Marv Knox