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  Survey links religious practice to life satisfaction

  The results of a new Global Flourishing Study found links between religiosity and people’s satisfaction with their lives.

  04/01/2024 - By Andre Henry / Religion News Service

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  Scientist uses resurrection to lead the curious to Christ

  Whenever he has the opportunity—on his website, at a lecture or at the end of one of his many YouTube videos—James Tour invites anyone who doesn’t believe in the resurrection to talk with him about it.

  04/01/2024 - By Laura Erlanson / Baptist Press

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  Louisiana Reach Haiti celebrates safe return of staff

  Four weeks after they became trapped in Port-au-Prince, two staff members of Louisiana Reach Haiti arrived safely at the ministry’s Children’s Village in Cap Haitien.

  04/01/2024 - By Brian Blackwell/Baptist Message

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  Gaza Baptists ‘no longer have the energy to suffer’

  Baptists sheltered in the remnants of Gaza Baptist Church are so worn out they “no longer have the energy to suffer,” a leader there told the Christian Mission to Gaza.

  04/01/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Katy church sees rapid growth in baptisms

  Bear Creek Baptist Church is seeing growth—the kind of growth many churches dream of, with 60 baptisms since the beginning of 2024.

  04/01/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Time to let the sun set on the Texas Lottery?

  Representatives of Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission and Texans Against Gambling recently called on members of the Sunset Advisory Commission to take a hard look at the Texas Lottery Commission.

  03/28/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Trump endorses ‘God Bless the USA Bible’

  During Holy Week, Donald Trump released a video promoting sales of the “God Bless the USA Bible.”

  03/28/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Study: Unaffiliated the only growing religious group in U.S.

  Religious churn has been a key fixture of U.S. religion for a long time, but a new surveyof changes in American religion finds that motion is not so much a swirling but a one-way stream heading out.

  03/28/2024 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  Author Leah Payne details the rise and fall of CCM

  ‘God Gave Rock & Roll to You’ is a new history of the cultural power of contemporary Christian music from religious historian Leah Payne.

  03/26/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Around the State: Health science workshop set at HPU

  High school students can apply now for Howard Payne University’s second annual Health Science Enrichment Workshop, scheduled June 19-21.

  03/26/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Beach Reach marked new high in professions of faith

  Ten days of intensive ministry to college students on South Padre Island yielded the highest number of professions of faith in Christ for any Beach Reach event in recent memory.

  03/26/2024 - By Texas Baptists Communications

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  Easter remains a high attendance day for most churches

  Most pastors expect one of their largest crowds of the year at church on Easter, but those expectations have tempered some in the past decade.

  03/26/2024 - By Aaron Earls / Lifeway Research