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  SBC Executive Committee trustees request called meeting

  Officers of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee are planning for a special called meeting at the request of 25 trustees.

  10/20/2021 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  NAMB will endorse and support only male church planters

  The Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board issued a statement making clear it will limit endorsement and funding exclusively to church plants with male pastors.

  10/19/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Truett program tackles emerging issues facing churches

  Truett Theological Seminary’s newly established Program for the Future Church is seeking to tackle emerging modern issues facing the church.

  10/19/2021 - By Lexi Nitishin / Baylor University

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  Attendance shrinking at small and midsize congregations

  A new survey of 15,278 religious congregations across the United States confirms trends sociologists have documented for several decades: Congregational life across the country is shrinking.

  10/18/2021 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  Seventeen with Christian missions agency kidnapped in Haiti

  Sixteen Americans and one Canadian representing Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries were kidnapped Oct. 16 by an armed gang in Haiti.

  10/18/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Nearly half in U.S. watched church online during pandemic

  According to a new Lifeway Research study, 45 percent of Americans say they have watched a Christian church service online during the COVID-19 pandemic, including some who say they don’t normally physically attend.

  10/18/2021 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

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  Ronnie Floyd resigns as SBC Executive Committee chief

  Ronnie Floyd, the embattled president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, has resigned, effective at the end of October.

  10/14/2021 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

• On the Move: Price

  Pastoral change for the historic Independence Baptist Church.

  10/13/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  BWA accepts nominations for 2022 Human Rights Award

  The Baptist World Alliance is accepting nominations for the 2022 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award.

  10/13/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: ETBU presents servant leadership awards

  East Texas Baptist University recognized junior Leah Akridge from Lufkin and senior Christian Phillips from Murphy with the Bob and Gayle Riley Servant Leadership Award.

  10/13/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Secrecy only option for Christians left in Afghanistan

  Christian minorities in Afghanistan either are fleeing the country or hunkering down to live in greater secrecy as the Taliban government there draws support from the global community, International Christian Concern officials said.

  10/13/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Documentary recounts the glory and mess of Christian music

  The contemporary Christian music industry survived scandals, pushback from televangelists and the wholesale disruption of the record industry over the past 50 years and kept rolling along. A new documentary tells that story.

  10/12/2021 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service