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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

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  McKissic says SBC should repudiate and/or replace Richard Land

  An influential black pastor says the Southern Baptist Convention should repudiate remarks about race by the head of its ethics commission, and if Richard Land does not repent he should be fired.

  04/19/2012 - By Administrator

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  Land issues back-to-back apologies for Trayvon Martin comments

  The head of Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission issued back-to-back apologies regarding statements he made on his radio program about the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Richard Land apologized both for offense caused by the remarks and for lifting some of the comments word-for-word from published materials without attributing their source.

   

  04/17/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  Six years after leaving Shorter College to become top missions administrator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Rob Nash is returning to the classroom at McAfee School of Theology.

  04/14/2012 - By Administrator

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  Do-it-yourself discipleship

  Not too long ago, hardly any church would have dared to plan, write and publish its own Bible study materials. These days, all that has changed.

  04/14/2012 - By Administrator

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  Blanchard outlines leadership at Willson Lectures

  Jesus offered the greatest leadership model the world ever has seen, management guru Ken Blanchard told a crowd at Wayland Baptist University. Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager and Lead Like Jesus, was the featured speaker for the Willson Lectures.

  04/13/2012 - By Administrator

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  90-year-old retired home missionary/pastor still serving God

  M.E. O'Neill, age 90, regularly leads worship services at two nursing homes in Uvalde and directs discipleship program for inmates.

  04/13/2012 - By Administrator