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  ‘Love your neighbor’ more than a slogan, Garland tells Wayland event

  New Testament scholar David Garland told the Panhandle-Plains Pastors’ and Laymen’s Conference that Jesus' parables "give us a glimpse of the transcendent from the lens of the ordinary."

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  Panhandle-Plains Conference celebrates God’s faithfulness

  With a nod to its humble beginnings and rich heritage, speakers at the 90th annual Panhandle-Plains Pastors’ and Laymen’s Conference at Wayland Baptist University said the continuous thread has been God’s faithfulness.

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  Tuition Equalization Grant cuts have big impact on Texas Baptist schools

  Proposed cuts in the Texas Tuition Equalization Grant program could have a major impact on Texas Baptist universities and many of their students, administrators at several schools noted.

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  HPU to fight hunger through Empty Bowls project

  Howard Payne University students, faculty and staff members joined together to paint bowls for the upcoming Empty Bowls event sponsored by Good Samaritan Ministries.

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  Three Hispanic evangelism conferences draw 3,400 participants

  Evangelist Herman Rios urged people to give their lives to Christ. And that’s what they did at a Hispanic Evangelism Conference at South San Filadelfia Baptist Church in San Antonio.

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  CrossBridge sees itself as a lighthouse in darkness

  CrossBridge Fellowship's outreach into a Corpus Christi high-crime area is spearheaded by small groups meeting in apartments as "church with the walls down" and lighthouses of Christian love.

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• BTSR considering Chowan merger

  Cash-strapped Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is considering a merger with Chowan University, a 162-year-old North Carolina Baptist school 99 miles south of the seminary’s Richmond, Va., campus, in hopes of solving lingering financial problems made worse by a bad economy.

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  Some foreign aid helps, other kinds do more harm than good, experts assert

  Is one-sided zeal for missions and ill-informed desire to help sometimes doing more harm than good? Many scholars say yes.

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  Fighting hunger makes economic and political sense, Christian activist says

  Despite deep divisions in U.S. society, Christians can lead the way toward bipartisan solutions to the pain of poverty, according to David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World.

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  ‘Bad advocacy’ can do more harm than good, Baptist scholar insists

  Celebrity-driven campaigns like Save Darfur and Invisible Children are popular, but in some cases, they do more harm than good, according to a Baptist scholar who specializes in African politics, conflict and international affairs.

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• Baptist leaders denounce Muslim hearing

  Leaders of three national Baptist organizations signed a statement released March 10 critical of the hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Homeland Security on the subject of radicalization within the American Muslim community.

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• Texas Tidbits

  Buckner International has teamed up with Star of Hope Mission to provide a transitional program for single-parent families in Houston, focusing particularly on homeless families.

  03/10/2011 - By admin