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  Baptist Briefs

  "The Story Lives On" is the theme of the Woman's Missionary Union Missions Celebration and annual meeting, June 17-18, in the La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom at the Ernest Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

  04/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Dillon International will hold a free adoption information meeting May 14 at 6 p.m. at the Buckner Children's Home campus in Dallas.

  04/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Chuck Colson, redeemed felon & evangelical icon, dies at 80

  Charles Colson, the Watergate felon who became an evangelical icon and born-again advocate for prisoners, died April 21 after a brief illness. He was 80.

  04/24/2012 - By Administrator

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  Southern Baptists to probe Richard Land’s Trayvon Martin remarks

  Southern Baptist leaders will investigate whether their top ethicist and public policy director plagiarized racially charged remarks about the Trayvon Martin case that many say set back the denomination's efforts on racial reconciliation.

  04/24/2012 - By Administrator

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  Children collateral damage in divorce

  Dissolution of a marriage is painful not only for couples, but also affects communities of faith and especially the children of divorce, a speaker told a [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Mercer University’s Center for Theology and Public Life.

  04/23/2012 - By Administrator

• Boundaries of covenant sometimes unclear, speakers assert

  The boundaries of covenant in regard to sexuality can be unclear for single adults, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender individuals and senior adults, speakers told a [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant.

  04/20/2012 - By Administrator

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  Gushee: Covenant best model for sexual relationship

  The co-convener of a conference on sexuality and covenant said April 20 that long-term committed relationships are the best model for Christians struggling to make sense of changing morals about sex.

  04/20/2012 - By Administrator

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  Ethnic labels a hindrance to unity in Christ

  Ethnicity – not race – thwarts Christian unity, Baptists’ international leader told participants at the T.B. Maston Lectures in Christian Ethics.

  04/20/2012 - By Administrator

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  Christians need to formulate embodied theology, speaker asserts

  Varied views on the human body in the Bible and church tradition shape modern Christians’ attitudes about sexuality, ethicist Melissa Browning told a [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant. She called for an "embodied theology" rooted in experience that could cause Christians to challenge traditional views on sexual relations.

  04/20/2012 - By Administrator

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  Look beyond denominational subculture, Baylor prof urges

  Contemporary ethical debates about sexuality cannot be separated from questions about the nature of the church and whether Christians will be shaped more by covenant community or by culture, a lecturer in Baylor University’s Great Texts program told participants at a [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant.

  04/20/2012 - By Administrator

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  Interpret the Bible with humility, speakers tell sexuality conference

  Christians who want to hear God’s voice—particularly when it comes to difficult issues regarding sexuality—need to approach the Scriptures with humility and a desire to know the heart and mind of Christ, speakers told participants at a [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant.

  04/19/2012 - By Administrator

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  Christians lack consensus on sexual ethics, speaker tells conference

  Christians no longer share a consensus that sex outside of marriage is always wrong and must find new ways to deal with that reality besides splitting into smaller and smaller groups over issues like homosexuality and contraception, a keynote speaker said April 19 in the opening session of a [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant co-sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Mercer University’s Center for Theology and Public Life.

  04/19/2012 - By Administrator