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  U.S. mosques multiply, take ‘moderate’ approach

  The number of mosques in America has jumped 74 percent since 2000, and the majority of them—56 percent—espouse a less-than-literal approach to interpreting Islam's holy texts.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  HPU students raise money to provide clean water

  Howard Payne University students raised more than $1,800 through recent campus events to support Charity: Water, an organization dedicated to providing clean drinking water for people in developing nations.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

• Hogg Foundation supports bilingual mental health grad students at Baylor

  Baylor University graduate students Lizeth Castillo, Carolina Fuentes and Andres Felipe Monsalve have been awarded scholarships from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to support bilingual mental health services in Texas.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Ethics is ‘glue’ that runs through Christian disciplines

  Ethics—how people apply what they believe to daily life—is the "glue" that moves through Christian disciplines, and should strengthen an individual's commitment to evangelism, according to a presenter at Texas Baptists' Christian Life Conference.

   

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  The commission on accreditation for the Association for Biblical Higher Education voted to grant accreditation to the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute.

  03/15/2012 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Aaron Harper to Prairie Lea Church in Prairie Lea as youth minister.

  03/15/2012 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  Mormons who want to practice proxy baptism for the dead have been told to keep it in the family. The governing First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently issued a mandate to members: Do not submit names of Jewish Holocaust victims or celebrities for proxy baptism.

  03/15/2012 - By Administrator

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  Myanmar refugees bring missions home to San Antonio church

  Ministry to the Chin people from Myanmar has brought a new insight into missions for Northeast Baptist Church in San Antonio.

  03/15/2012 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Engage: Evangelizing Texas conferences have been set for Abilene and Corpus Christi. The March 21 Corpus Christ conference will be held at First Church and will feature Jon Randles and Sammy Lopez.

  03/15/2012 - By Administrator

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  British Baptists face budget shortfall

  The Baptist Union of Great Britain faces likely cutbacks as leaders project that financial support from Baptist churches will continue to decline.

  03/14/2012 - By Administrator

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  Obama appeals to ‘social gospel’

  President Obama denied March 12 that he is “waging a war on religion,” citing his own work as a community organizer before entering politics as part of the “social gospel.”

  03/14/2012 - By Administrator

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  FaithVillage: real community online

  (UPDATED) Brad Russell envisions a vibrant community of Christians online together expanding their faith, deepening their relationships and fulfilling their calling.  What he sees is FaithVillage.com.

   

   

  03/14/2012 - By Administrator