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  Oby featured at Wayland’s McCoy lectures

  Carlton Oby drew from Matthew 22:37-39 to remind Wayland Baptist University students that the greatest commandment is to love God and the second is to love one another.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  TBM joins in multistate Hurricane Sandy disaster relief

  About 100 Texas Baptist Men volunteers joined in a multistate disaster relief effort to provide more than 670,000 meals to people affected by Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that hit the United States’ most heavily populated region.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptists commit to long-term disaster recovery efforts in Rhode Island, Connecticut

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas disaster recovery office has committed to help in long-term recovery efforts in Rhode Island and Connecticut following Hurricane Sandy.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Exhibit celebrates Jewish history, artifacts

  The Library of Congress exhibit “Words Like Sapphires,” which celebrates 100 years of Hebraica, includes a 19th century copy of the U.S. Constitution in Yiddish and Hebrew and other objects drawn from its more than 200,000-piece Hebraica collection.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest: New Archbishop of Canterbury

  Justin Welby, bishop of Durman, was named the 105th archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England and leader of the worldwide 77 million-member Anglican Communion.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  DBU business office volunteers help Mission Arlington prepare for winter

  Seventeen staff from the Dallas Baptist University business office and their families helped Mission Arlington clean its Tannisch House, so the volunteer center could be used for storage this winter.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  DBU students learn to help others through using business skills

  This fall, Dallas Baptist University business students worked with Buckner International’s Community Transformation Center and H.I.S. Bridge Builders. and were introduced to ideas about business practices they had not considered.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Can ‘convergence’ lead to truce in culture wars?

  Supporters of "Convergence Christianity" are examining the common ground between post-evangelicals and post-progressives and seeking to avoid theological extremes. But critics say it's simply rebranded Christian liberalism.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Home of former jailed pastor raided in Azerbaijan

  Police in Azerbaijan raided the home of a Baptist pastor who served 10 months in prison before winning a pardon following appeals on his behalf from Baptist leaders worldwide.

  11/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Criswell College sues government over Obama health mandate

  Criswell College, a Southern Baptist Bible school with informal ties to the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, sued the federal government Nov. 1, claiming the contraceptive mandate in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act violates the school’s opposition to abortion.

  11/15/2012 - By Administrator

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  Seminaries try preventive medicine for ministerial burnout

  Burnout leads many ministers to leave their posts, and in recent years, the subject has spurred everything from clergy health initiatives to sabbaticals to pastor burnout blogs. But some seminaries are undertaking preventive medicine of the spiritual kind.

  11/15/2012 - By Administrator

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  Texas Tidbits

  Baylor University is one of only 21 institutions nationwide to earn an “A” for its core curriculum, according to a report on the state of general education at the nation’s colleges and universities from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

  11/15/2012 - By Administrator