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  Baptist Briefs: British Baptists wrestle with gay marriage

  The recent call by a prominent evangelical to re-examine the church’s traditional rejection of homosexuality prompted debate in the Baptist Union of Great Britain.

  02/07/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  American Baptists take on gun violence

  Directors of American Baptist Home Mission Societies unanimously adopted a statement recommending 10 measures aimed at combating gun violence in the United States.

  02/06/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas Baptists fill training gap in Ciudad Juarez

  Texas Baptists led Sunday school training sessions in Ciudad Juarez recently to fill a gap left by a steep decline in mission teams serving along the Texas-Mexico border.

  02/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  DBU students mark MLK Day with community service

  Seventy-nine Dallas Baptist University students spent the Martin Luther King Day of Service volunteering at four sites around Dallas.

  02/04/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Contraceptive mandate opt-out expanded

  The Obama administration has proposed a broader opt-out for religious organizations that object to mandated coverage of contraceptives in employee health care plans.

  02/04/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Woodway Church loses another minister

  Jim Gray, 68, associate senior adult minister at First Baptist Church of Woodway near Waco, was killed Jan. 30 in a head-on crash a month and a day after the death of the church’s senior pastor, Mike Toby.

  01/31/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Churches look at security after Sandy Hook

  Mass shootings like the Sandy Hook school massacre, and smaller ones at churches, have led to some soul searching by church staffs, pushing leaders to balance security with ministry.

  01/30/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Honest creativity demands courage, filmmaker tells HSU students

  Christian artists have a responsibility to practice courageous truth-telling, filmmaker Steve Taylor told students at Hardin-Simmons University.

  01/30/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Prayer partners sought for collegiate missionaries

  Go Now Missions, the college student missions program of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, is seeking prayer partners for young people who are considering going to the mission field.

  01/28/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  SBC leader supports gun control steps

  Southern Baptists’ top spokesman for moral issues wrote President Obama recently supporting gun-control measures that don’t infringe on the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.

  01/26/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Faith Digest: Persecution in Africa

  The persecution of Christians “vastly rose” in 2012 as radical Islamists consolidated power in Africa, according to Open Doors.

  01/25/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Obituaries

  Deaths: Leroy Daniel, Giles Fort Jr., Elizabeth Moore and Charles Brinkley.

  01/25/2013 - By admin