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  Faith Digest

  Goshen College no longer will play The Star-Spangled Banner at sporting events, school leaders announced, reversing last year’s decision to allow the use of the national anthem for the first time in the Mennonite college’s history.

  06/30/2011 - By Administrator

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  Evangelicals see declining influence in United States

  A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life seems to say just that, with the vast majority—82 percent—of U.S. evangelical leaders saying their influence on the country is declining.

  06/30/2011 - By Administrator

• Civil religion: lowest common denominator or common ground?

  Some Baptists see civil religion as bland at best and idolatrous at worst. But others view broadly shared values of liberty, justice and acknowledgement of God’s providential care as a common ground Christians share with a majority of their fellow citizens.

  06/30/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baptists should understand, teach church-state separation

  Because of their historic commitment to religious liberty and separation of church and state, Baptists have a responsibility to educate their fellow citizens what those concepts mean, church historian Jim Spivey said.

  06/30/2011 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Mike Cooper to First Church in Smithville as youth minister.

  06/29/2011 - By Administrator

• Around the State

  Howard Payne University  will host young and summer scholars programs July 18-22 from 9 a.m. to noon on the HPU Academy of Freedom campus.

  06/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Teen volunteers change the world, one neighborhood at a time

  While many teenagers typically spend free time in the summer swimming at the beach or watching TV, 230 students from five states arrived in Dallas recently for a World Changers effort to paint siding, build ramps and work on roofs in 100-degree heat.

  06/28/2011 - By Administrator

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  CBF pastor says tell stories of why moderates left, not who they left

  A Truett Seminary graduate said the 20-year-old Cooperative Baptist Fellowship must recast its message for a rising generation.

  06/27/2011 - By Administrator

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  Dunn uplifts ‘soul freedom’ at BJC luncheon

  Accepting this year’s J.M. Dawson Religious Liberty Award from the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty June 24, former BJC leader James Dunn identified “soul freedom” as the driving force behind the church-state watchdog organization now in its 75th year.

  06/24/2011 - By Administrator

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  CBF commissions self-funded missionaries

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship commissioned 14 self-funded individuals to missions work June 23 at the General Assembly in Tampa, Fla. More than 1,600 Fellowship Baptists were in attendance on the first full day of the Assembly, which included auxiliary events, business sessions and the commissioning service.

  06/24/2011 - By Administrator

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  Vietnamese-Americans voice gospel to villagers on Cambodian Lake

  Two Vietnamese-Americans from Texas were part of a team of 10 who shared medical aid and the Gospel at a remote village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake.

  06/23/2011 - By Administrator

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  Londoners find Christ when US Worldchangers share

  Seventy American students traveled to London early this summer as part of International World Changers, an overseas student missions experience sponsored by the International Mission Board to spread the gospel in the city.

  06/23/2011 - By Administrator