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  Calling: Ministry is not a job for Lillian Hinds

  Lillian Hinds serves as witness to God calling women to the pastorate. February is the Baptist Women in Ministry Month of Preaching.

  02/06/2019 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  BWA and Venezuelan Baptists urge release of jailed leader

  Baptist World Alliance officials joined the National Baptist Convention of Venezuela in calling for the release of a Venezuelan Baptist youth leader who has been jailed since Jan. 23.

  02/06/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: UMHB honored by BGCT, Texas Legislature

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas recognized the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on the inaugural Texas Baptists’ Institutional Legacy Day during a worship service at the historic Anderson Baptist Church

  02/06/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  GuideStone releases latest Ministers’ Tax Guide

  GuideStone Financial Resources has released its 2019 Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2018 Returns.

  02/06/2019 - By Holly Taylor / Baptist Press

• Obituary: John Earl Seelig

  John Earl Seelig, who served three decades as vice president for public affairs at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died on Jan. 17. He was 94. 

  02/05/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: John G. Conley

  Jack G. Conley, retired pastor and missionary, died Jan. 27 in Tyler. He was 90.

  02/05/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Cross not a secular display, Baptist Joint Committee asserts

  The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty joined in a friend-of-the-court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling that a 40-foot cross on government land violates the U.S. Constitution.

  02/05/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Baylor Scott & White and Memorial Hermann call off merger

  Baylor Scott & White Health and Memorial Hermann Health System called off a proposed merger that would have created a massive not-for-profit healthcare system with a presence in 30 Texas counties.

  02/05/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  CommonCall: Pure Water, Living Water

  Texas Baptist Men secured a grant from national WMU to provide clean water for a hard-to-reach area in central Burkina Faso. In the process, people throughout that region learned about the source of Living Water, Jesus Christ.

  02/04/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  WMU, TBM, Waco layman help Cuban Baptists after tornado

  A Waco layman and national Woman’s Missionary Union—along with Texas Baptist Men—are seeking to help Cuban Baptists meet needs in the aftermath of a deadly tornado that swept through Havana.

  02/01/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Previously churchgoing young adults conflicted about religion

  Most young adults who attended church as teenagers say they believe in God today, but fewer consider themselves devout Christians. And as a whole, they have conflicting recollections about the churches they attended in high school.

  02/01/2019 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

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  Retired Georgia Baptist editor Jack Harwell dies

  Jack Harwell, editor of The Christian Index for 21 years during his 30 years with Georgia Baptists’ newsjournal, died Jan. 18 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

  02/01/2019 - By Art Toalston / Baptist Press